RE: Getting a file to excel

[Mahesh Pawar <pawarmahesh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Alan ,
   
  Better you concat Apostrophe(') with card number number. 
   
  you can try to enter number in excel by preceeding Apostrophe( ' ). this wil 
help to store number more than 15 digits.
   
  Regards
  Mahesh Pawar

Alan Shore <AlanShore@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
  
Does the Char( ) work for numbers larger than 15 digits?


Alan Shore

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I use SQL to pull most of the data I take to Excel. Any numbers like UPC,
ISBN, or credit card I Char() first, then import using the I-Series Access
plug-ins for excel. Works fine. No leading zeroes and it doesn't turn the
last few digits into zeroes.


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Yep, it shows up wrong. That's because the default cell type is general
which means that anything that looks like a number is treated that way
(it also looks like Excel doesn't handle 18 digit numbers properly). We
have the same problem with ISBNs (most have a leading zero and are all
numbers). You have to specify the cell format before you enter data. I
think there's a way to run the text import wizard that lets you specify
the format of each column but it's not obvious. Stupid Excel.

Matt

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That's what I thought.
Try typing the following into an excel cell
123456789123456789
and tell me what you get.
The only way around this is by typing a single quote before you type
123456789123456789, making the cell a text format, but when we applied
this
idea to our problem, the result showed leading zeroes. Even though this
was
NOT incorrect, it looked weird for our users when they know that, the
particular field was a credit card.


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That only holds true for text files and there is a work around for it
but I don't recall what it is (searching on WEB-400 might turn it up).
For true Excel files, you can specify the data type for each cell and
it's not a problem.

Matt

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Be careful with attempting to put data into an excel spreadsheet.
One of the problems we have (and if anyone can post an answer to this,
we
would be very grateful), is that a credit card number is held in a 19
digit
numeric field. Once this field is placed into an excel spreadsheet,
excel
will only display the first 15 numbers, 0 filling the rest - NO MATTER
what
the rest is.
I know this is a problem with excel, but, like I said, if anyone has an
answer....


Alan Shore

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HI What are some of the methods in taking a file that was generated by
an
RPG program and getting it to the user in an Excel Worksheet file?

It seems to be a straightforward file. Is there a preferred method. Any
issues w/ v5.3 and the client access ?

Thanks,
Steve

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