Is there a way to stop Excel 2010 from doing math on a bunch of cells containing multiple numbers with leading plus or minus signs? E.g.
-706795 -1456130 -1869550 -936304 -1729830 -1737860 -687165 -16807800
Right now it sums the numbers up into one value. I would like them displayed as above. Formatting the cell as text doesn't work. I get this data from a CSV and have limited control over its contents...
Use a single quote
'-706795 -1456130 -1869550 -936304 -1729830 -1737860 -687165 -16807800
Use the text import wizard to load each value into an individual column. You may have to rename the CSV file as '.txt' to get the import wzard up by default, (shameless rep seeking here:).
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I have data in notepad with more than 1000+ entries, which need to convert in to Excel with particular break based on length. can someone help
011000015FRB-BOS FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF BOSTON MABOSTON Y Y20040910
File format is as below
Position Field
1-9 Routing number
1 Office code
I tried delimiting option but dint worked out.
If your data always has the routing number in columns 1-9, then delimited import is the way to go. Choose Import From Text, then select Fixed Width and click Next. On Step 2, click at each character that would be a separator. Eg, click at character 9 to split it into two columns with the first column haviong the first nine characters and the second column having the rest. Step 3 will allow you to set the data format. I'd recommend setting the first column to text so Excel doesn't try to use scientific notation or something on your account numbers.
when I import the data from csv, I cannot work on it because the excel treats the numbers as a text. When I try to sum them or get the average I get 0 or error becouse there are none number. It changes when i delete the dot '.' in one cell and put i again. That operation changes type of variable to number and it works. But I don't want to change tousends of data in this way. How can I convert it somehow to make i work?
Thanks for every answer.
Try to use general options selected properly dont import with text format select general format as given in picture.
I have a csv file. One column has a number with 2 decimal digits like 100,00. But hides the trailing zeros (100). When I open it with notepad is 100,00.
Welcome to the mad world of CSVs and Excel.
That's one of the problems with the CSV files and excel: The value trailing zeros aren't shown by default. You can always modify the CSV within excel and then save it as *.xls or *.xlsx files.
There is no way to tell Excel to open a CSV with showing numbers per default with all given digits, if they are zero because excel does interpret them as "Standard".
If you don't need to work with the numbers as numbers you can always exchange the , with a . (that might be depending on the locale, not sure). Or just export it as a String:
The CSV:
test
="100,00"
13,37
100.00
=100,01
will produce the following output (locale de_DE):
In general, if you need to work with excel and want as much pre-formatted as possible, don't use CSV.
CSV is just comma-separated values. Just values. No formatting hints are included. So you can't have a number's display format specified within the CSV -- the numbers will be displayed in whatever format Excel shows.
If you'd rather you can change the default display format in Excel (for all sheets, not just CSV's). Not what you're asking, but perhaps it will be your preference. See How to change the default number format in Excel? for details on that option.
I am trying to enter approximately 190 txt datafiles in Excel using the New Query tool (Data->New Query->From File->From Folder). In the Windows explorer the data are properly ordered: the first being 0summary, the second 30summary etc.
However, when entering them through the query tool the files are sorted as shown in the picture (see line 9 for example, you will see that the file is not in the right position):
The files are sorted based on the first digit instead of the value represented. Is there a solution to this issue? I have tried putting space between the number and the summary but it also didn't work. I saw online that Excel doesn't recognize the text within "" or after /, but I am not allowed to save the text files with those symbols in their name in Windows. Even when removed the word summary the problem didn't fix. Any suggestions?
If all your names include the word Summary:
You can add a column "Extract" / "Text before delimiter" enter "Summary", change the column type to Number and sort over that column
If the only numbers are those you wish to sort on, you can
add a custom column with just the numbers
Change the data type to whole number
sort on that.
The formula for the custom column:
Text.Select([Name],{"0".."9"})
If the alpha portion varies, and you need to sort on that also, you can do something similar adding another column for the alpha portion, and sorting on that.
If there might be digits after the leading digits upon which you want to sort, then use the following formula for the added column which will extract only the digits at the beginning of the file name:
=Text.Middle([Name],0,Text.PositionOfAny([Name],{"A".."z"}))
33266500,332665100,332665200,332665300 was the original value, cell should look like this: 33266500,332665100,332665200,332665300 but what I see as the cell value in excel is 3.32665E+34
So the question is I want to convert it into the original string. I have found format function on google and I used it like these
format(3.32665E+34,"standard")
giving it as 332,6650,033,266,510,000,000,000
How to parse it or get back the orginal string? I belive format is the function in vba.
Excel has a 15 digit precision limit. If the numbers are already shown like this when you access the file, there is no way to get the number back - you have already lost some digits. VBA code and formulas will not help you.
If this is not the case, you can add a single quote ' mark before the number to store it as text. This will ensure Excel does not try to treat it as a number and thus lose precision.
If you want the value kept exactly, store the data as a string, not as a number. The data type you are using simply doesn't have the ability to do what you are asking it to do.
If you're starting with an Excel file that has already been created then you've already lost the information: Excel has tried to understand what it was given and its best guess has turned out to be wrong. All you can do (if you can't get the source data) is go back to the creator of the Excel file and tell them what's wrong.
If you're starting with, say, a text file that you're importing, then the news is much better:
If you're importing manually using the Text Import Wizard, then at "Step 3 of 3" you need to set "Column Data Format" for the problem field to "Text".
If you're using a macro, you'll need to specify a value for the TextFileColumnDataTypes property that does the same thing. The easiest way to get it right is to use the Macro Recorder.
If you want the four values in the string to be separate cells, then again, look at the Text Import Wizard settings: in Step 1 of 3 you need to set "Delimited" data type (usually the default) and in Step 2 make sure that "Comma" is checked.
The value needs to be entered into the cell as a string. You need to make whatever it is that inserts the value preceed the value with a '.