Keeping leading zeros in imported data (one digit month as 05)

[exito816]

I am importing a csv into Excel. I need to retain leading zeros that occur
in a MMDD format. So that May 5th appears 0505 on csv but when imported it
appears 505. How can I do that easily?

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

Rename the file to your_name.txt and the text import wizard will open, in
step 3 you can select text under column data, that will keep leading zeros.
You can also open the csv file doing data>import external data>import data
then in the file name type *.*, then find your csv file and open it, that
will also trigger the text import wizard


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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom

 

[Dave Peterson]

You could format the cell after you bring in your data
(Format|cells|Number tab|Custom category: 0000)

Or you could rename your .csv file to .txt. Then when you do file|open, you'll
get the text import wizard and you can tell excel to treat this field as text.