16th digit changes?? Problem,16th digit changes to a zero....

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Our company uses a program that has some inventory items that are 16
numerical digits long. When I run an export to a csv file. I notice that
after opening the file, all the cells that have skus which are 16 digits
long, get changed to end with a zero instead of the real number. After some
labored testing, I finally decided to try to manually input a sample number
into excel and noticed that the 16th digit gets changed everytime to a zero.
Is there a fix or way to keep this from happening?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Roman

[Niek Otten]

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Kind Regards,

Niek Otten

Microsoft MVP - Excel

"[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Our company uses a program that has some inventory items that are 16
> numerical digits long. When I run an export to a csv file. I notice that
> after opening the file, all the cells that have skus which are 16 digits
> long, get changed to end with a zero instead of the real number. After
> some
> labored testing, I finally decided to try to manually input a sample
> number
> into excel and noticed that the 16th digit gets changed everytime to a
> zero.
> Is there a fix or way to keep this from happening?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Roman

[Martin Brown]

[email protected] wrote:
> Our company uses a program that has some inventory items that are 16
> numerical digits long. When I run an export to a csv file. I notice that
> after opening the file, all the cells that have skus which are 16 digits
> long, get changed to end with a zero instead of the real number. After some
> labored testing, I finally decided to try to manually input a sample number
> into excel and noticed that the 16th digit gets changed everytime to a zero.
> Is there a fix or way to keep this from happening?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.

You have hit the physical limit on the storage of IEEE floating point
numbers in Excel. If you want to use 16 decimal digit part numbers you
will have to set the cell type to "text" so that they are held as strings.

Regards,
Martin Brown