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Excel Deletes Leading 0s When Opening a CSV File

Alex — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:43:30 +0000

If you want Excel to keep a field’s leading zeros when opening a CSV file using Excel, you can change it to =”value”.

For example, if you have a row with 4 values that looks like this:

test,00016102,test,test

Just change it to:

test,="00016102",test,test

Alex — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:00:10 +0000

To avoid getting the error “Your operating system does not meet system requirements”, I had to use User Agent Switcher to download the spreadsheet at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/TC300022771033.aspx for electric meter logging for energy efficiency. Then I used cabextract to extract the .cab file and used Open Office to view the 30002277.xltx file. Here it is saved using Open Office’s ODS format: electricity_tracking.

Alex — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:34:51 +0000

If you need to select the whole data region (it might included some empty cells) in Excel without selecting all cells (+), click on any cell inside that group and then type: ++<8>. It is very useful for large data sets.

You should then get something like this: