CSV File and Maintaining Quotation Marks in TXT

R

rammstein

Hi, I've currently got this problem at work - any help would b
appreciated.

I've exported a CSV file of payer information from one of our system
with the plan of being able to manipulate this data and import back. I
only allows the choice of saving it as a txt file which i do. When
open this in notepad the charactors appear somewhat like this (I'
going from memory here):

, "0027892", "Mr & Mrs Bloggs", 0, 1, 1

I then started excel and opened the txt file with the use of impor
wizard making sure I converted some of the columns to text so I didn'
remove the leading zeros.

I then tried to save this in excel as a csv file. However, a messag
came up saying that part of the format was uncompatable but did I wan
to save anyway,this I did.

Problem is whenever I save it as a txt file again with this aim o
importing the amended data, the leading comma and all the quotatio
marks are gone. It appears something like this in notepad:

0027892, Mr & Mrs Bloggs, 0, 1, 1

Any ideas as to what I'm not doing correctly?

Sorry about the longwinded post.

Mat
 

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