Exporting text to Excel

Posted by qcace on 17-Nov-2010 09:01

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Here is a sample of data I'm exporting to an Excel file.  How do I get the values that just contain numbers to export as text?

FOR EACH tmpRecView:

  PUT STREAM sRptFile UNFORMATTED

    tmpRecView.addr-mac 

FORMAT "XXXXXXXXXXXX" SKIP.

END.

Thanks,

Andy

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Posted by abevoelker on 17-Nov-2010 20:26

If that is exactly the way you are writing to the file, then the problem is with Excel's "automatic recognition" kicking in and applying a different default style to input that appears numeric than that which appears to be non-numeric text.

If you need to solve this problem at the time of creating the raw file, then you can either use SpreadsheetML (if you are using 2003; else it will be Office Open XML) or HTML to explicitly tell Excel how to format the text.

Posted by Thomas Mercer-Hursh on 18-Nov-2010 11:38

Check out http://www.oehive.org/TempTableExpositor and http://www.oehive.org/project/OOCalcLib and http://www.oehive.org/project/libxlsx

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