Check the appropriate boxes and select the columns you want to format as text (or any other special format). You can see on line 17 and 18 that the leading zeros are maintained.Īgain to recap, launch excel first, change the file type to open to 'all files' to launch the wizard. This is how it will now show up on my excel spreadsheet. When satisfied, click 'OK' and verify the results. In the Format Cells prompt, click on 'Date' and then the desired format in the controls to the right. This can be accomplished by right clicking the date column's header and selecting 'Format Cells.'. This may require additional formatting of the date column when it is initially viewed in Excel. NOTE: MET/TEAM stores all dates with the time component, even if it is NOT displayed in MET/TEAM. I'll tell the wizard to format the data in selected columns (barcode, serial number and id) as 'Text' by clicking on each tab, then clicking the 'Text' radio button (repeating for each column to be formatted) and 'Finish'.

I check that is delimited by tab and click 'next': I first checked that my data has a header row (if your CSV file does not - you can leave this unchecked):

The wizard is a great tool that will allow you to change the data type format for individual columns. file>open and changed the file type to 'all files'. This article came about when a customer found opening his CSV file in Excel would remove leading zeros in his asset numbers (see lines 17 and 18 below).

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