Long numbers show up as Scientific Notation

Hello,

We have a web based asset tracking system, and some assets have long serial
numbers; for instance,
3100600300030147987
or
3101600300100020220

When we import, cut and paste, or open an HTML format page in Excel with
these serial numbers, they all show up as: 3.1016E+18 and the last 6 digits
get rounded up.

How do we show the correct value for these long numbers in excel?

Thanks

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 08:59:07 -0800, berryware421243
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>We have a web based asset tracking system, and some assets have long serial
>numbers; for instance,
>3100600300030147987
>or
>3101600300100020220
>
>When we import, cut and paste, or open an HTML format page in Excel with
>these serial numbers, they all show up as: 3.1016E+18 and the last 6 digits
>get rounded up.
>
>How do we show the correct value for these long numbers in excel?
>
>Thanks
>

These must be imported as TEXT.


--ron

Excel won't work with numbers longer than 15 digits. You don't say exactly
how you are importing the data, but somewhere in the process you need to
identify the serial numbers as text. Maybe you could format the destination
cell as text or precede the number with an apostrophe ( ' ). The apostrophe
won't display or print, but will make the number a string.

Carlos

"berryware421243" <[email protected]> wrote in
message news:[email protected]...
> Hello,
>
> We have a web based asset tracking system, and some assets have long
serial
> numbers; for instance,
> 3100600300030147987
> or
> 3101600300100020220
>
> When we import, cut and paste, or open an HTML format page in Excel with
> these serial numbers, they all show up as: 3.1016E+18 and the last 6
digits
> get rounded up.
>
> How do we show the correct value for these long numbers in excel?
>
> Thanks
>
>

Hello,
We are exporting the result set of a query from the application as an HTML
table. This HTM file is opened in Excel and the long serial numbers get
truncated.

The same happens when we cut and paste.

We cannot prefix the number with another character as the HTML table export
is part of the application.

Thanks

"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 08:59:07 -0800, berryware421243
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >We have a web based asset tracking system, and some assets have long serial
> >numbers; for instance,
> >3100600300030147987
> >or
> >3101600300100020220
> >
> >When we import, cut and paste, or open an HTML format page in Excel with
> >these serial numbers, they all show up as: 3.1016E+18 and the last 6 digits
> >get rounded up.
> >
> >How do we show the correct value for these long numbers in excel?
> >
> >Thanks
> >
>
> These must be imported as TEXT.
>
>
> --ron
>

Hello,
We are exporting the result set of a query from the application as an HTML
table. This HTM file is opened in Excel and the long serial numbers get
truncated.

The same happens when we cut and paste.

We cannot prefix the number with another character as the HTML table export
is part of the application.

Thanks

"CarlosAntenna" wrote:

> Excel won't work with numbers longer than 15 digits. You don't say exactly
> how you are importing the data, but somewhere in the process you need to
> identify the serial numbers as text. Maybe you could format the destination
> cell as text or precede the number with an apostrophe ( ' ). The apostrophe
> won't display or print, but will make the number a string.
>
> Carlos
>
> "berryware421243" <[email protected]> wrote in
> message news:[email protected]...
> > Hello,
> >
> > We have a web based asset tracking system, and some assets have long
> serial
> > numbers; for instance,
> > 3100600300030147987
> > or
> > 3101600300100020220
> >
> > When we import, cut and paste, or open an HTML format page in Excel with
> > these serial numbers, they all show up as: 3.1016E+18 and the last 6
> digits
> > get rounded up.
> >
> > How do we show the correct value for these long numbers in excel?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
>
>
>

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 11:19:02 -0800, berryware421243
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Hello,
>We are exporting the result set of a query from the application as an HTML
>table. This HTM file is opened in Excel and the long serial numbers get
>truncated.
>
>The same happens when we cut and paste.
>
>We cannot prefix the number with another character as the HTML table export
>is part of the application.
>
>Thanks

If you cannot change how the application exports the data, you will probably
have to write a routine that preprocesses the HTML table before importing it
into Excel, in order that Excel may treat those long numbers as text. This is
not an area in which I am knowledgeable, however.

However, try the following procedure:

=========================
Copy the table.

Open Excel and format the cells as TEXT.

Paste/Special as TEXT

Clean up the mess (extra rows and so forth.
===================

--ron