I'm of the opinion that Excel ought to treat it as text if it is surrounded by full quotes. But that's an MS issue.

Vern

At 11:22 AM 2/25/2004 -0500, you wrote:
That's a nice trick, but it's still somewhat more work than simply
downloading the data directly into Excel. Maybe I'm too lazy (didn't Larry
Wall say laziness is one of the "three great virtues of a programmer"?
:-), but since since DB2 knows it's a text field and CA knows it's a text
field, I think it would be _really_ handy if Excel could somehow get the
message that it's a text field without all that manual intervention.

But then, you could fill a book with things I think would be really handy
. . . . :-)



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