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Leading zeros dropped in Excel

Can anyone help me...I am trying to output my access report to excel. One of my fields is formatted as text, but excel is dropping leading zeros...only on the records where all values are numeric. The alphanumberic records keep the leading zeros. If someone could supply the vba it would be much appreciated.
Thank you for any help!
Sep 20 '06 #1
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Double check that the field is set to text, becuase that is the only thing I can think of that would cuase that.
Sep 20 '06 #2
MMcCarthy
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Excel will try to change a field to numeric when there are only numbers present. Are you using the TransferSpreadsheet command and is the excel spreadsheet already existing. One option is to try putting an apostrophe before all the numbers. Excel will know to read it as text.

Can anyone help me...I am trying to output my access report to excel. One of my fields is formatted as text, but excel is dropping leading zeros...only on the records where all values are numeric. The alphanumberic records keep the leading zeros. If someone could supply the vba it would be much appreciated.
Thank you for any help!
Sep 21 '06 #3
Just put an   before all strings, it will work fine
May 21 '07 #4

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