Cell formatting issue

[Richard.Briggs]

Hello,

We have data that is downloaded to a .xls file from a SAP application.
The field in question is a 30 character field that contains all
numeric data. The problem is when opened in Excel the format of the
data is change to scientific notation and the right 7 characters are
changed to zeros. The character string should be
9611019049526870545643 but in Excel it appears as 9.61102e+21 and
formated as a general number. When converted to a displayable number
it converts to 9611019049526870000000. I tried saving the file rather
than opening it into Excel and found the character string did contain
all the numbers, when opening it in Notepad it appears as
<td class='SAPBExSt' style=" "> 9611019049526870545643 </td>.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Rick

 

[Guest]

If you don't have to do any math on the figures, you might try importing that
column as TEXT, to get it to display all the numbers....

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3

 

[Richard.Briggs]

If you don't have to do any math on the figures, you might try importing that
column as TEXT, to get it to display all the numbers....

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3







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Chuck,

Thank you for your response. Is there a way to specify the field's
import format?

Thanks,

RIck

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

If you import it using the text import wizard you can click next twice and
select text under column data format

 

[Guest]

Yes, usually in the Importing Utility.............how are you bringing the
data in to Excel?.......If through MSQuery you can just follow the menus and
should see the option to format each field.

Vaya Con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3

 

[Richard.Briggs]

Yes, usually in the Importing Utility.............how are you bringing the
data in to Excel?.......If through MSQuery you can just follow the menus and
should see the option to format each field.

Vaya Con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3





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Unfortunately the file is already a .xls file and Excel does not
recoginize the need to run the import wizard to open the file. It is a
download from a SAP Web query. I did check the .xls file and the
string is all there before Excel opens it and changes it. I tried
cutting and pasting a long numeric string into an Excel cell and
experienced the same results.

Is there a way to override the 15 char limit in Excel or to treat the
string as a string and not a number?

Thanks,

Rick

 

[Richard.Briggs]

Yes, usually in the Importing Utility.............how are you bringing the
data in to Excel?.......If through MSQuery you can just follow the menus and
should see the option to format each field.

Vaya Con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3





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Unfortunately the .xls file is alreay build in a download from SAP.
When checking the .xls file in Notepad the correct amount of
characters is displayed it is only when opening in Excel that the
truncation occurs. There is no import process that would allow the
specification of a columns format.

Thanks,

Rick

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

If you use a web query you can pre-format the columns as text and then in
the query process (under properties) select Preserve cell formatting

 

[Richard.Briggs]

If you use a web query you can pre-formatthe columns as text and then in
the query process (under properties) select Preserve cell formatting

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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom








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Thank you for the response but I don't see where I have the control to
specify the maintian cell formatting. In testing I have a situation
where one value is truncated into the scientific notation and the
other is not. Looking at the .xls file I do not see a difference
between the two character strings that would cause one to truncate and
the other to open correctly. Any thoughts?