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How to preserve leading zeros in CSV file when saving in Excel
AaronSSH
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I have a large 300,000 row CSV file that I need to split into 4 CSV files. When I open this CSV file in notepad, I can see that the leading 0's are there for our part numbers: (000006446) for example. Excel by default truncates the leading zeros from view when I open the CSV. That's fine, I don't need to see them there. The problem is that when I use Excel to modify this CSV file and save a copy, then Excel updates the CSV file and removes all of the leading 0's from the file.
Does someone have a creative idea on how to preserve my leading zeros? I can't just convert the column to Text format because the leading zeros are already dropped from the view in Excel, so this too removes all of the leading zeros.
Does someone have a creative idea on how to preserve my leading zeros? I can't just convert the column to Text format because the leading zeros are already dropped from the view in Excel, so this too removes all of the leading zeros.
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