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Excel 2003- text showing as scientific notation
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Two columns- Seller Name and Document ID
Document ID is formatted as text
Each Seller uses various - some all ###, some text, some mixed
Even though field is formatted as text, some of the data is shown with the E+11 notation.
It does not seem to be size related. Some longer strings are shown in entirety.
I am trying to import into an Access database and I cannot get it to import it correctly unless I go in and change each cell in Column B to show correctly (by clicking in its cell, then the formula bar where it shows correctly, then back in the cell. I have over 20,000 entries. Can't do that for each cell. This data is downloaded from an outside source and comes to me as is formatted now.
Excel-text-format-issue.xls
Two columns- Seller Name and Document ID
Document ID is formatted as text
Each Seller uses various - some all ###, some text, some mixed
Even though field is formatted as text, some of the data is shown with the E+11 notation.
It does not seem to be size related. Some longer strings are shown in entirety.
I am trying to import into an Access database and I cannot get it to import it correctly unless I go in and change each cell in Column B to show correctly (by clicking in its cell, then the formula bar where it shows correctly, then back in the cell. I have over 20,000 entries. Can't do that for each cell. This data is downloaded from an outside source and comes to me as is formatted now.
Excel-text-format-issue.xls
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