How to import long number from csv to excel without converting to scientific notation in VBA

Question

I opened semicolon delimited txt file with this code below and long account number showed up as scientific notation after saving to excel regardless of formatting to text that c

Answer 1

I was importing products into an excel file and the barcodes would come up as a scientific notation (eg 5.4265E+12)

This meant when I converted the file into a csv file to upload the details, the csv wasn't reading the barcodes properly and changing them to 52862300000 etc.

To combat it:

• Open as an excel sheet (or convert if you can't open as one)
• highlight the (barcode/scientific notation) column
• Go into Data / text to columns
• Page 1: Check 'Delimited' / Next
• Page 2: Check ' Tab' and change 'Text Qualifier' to " / Next
• Page 3: Check 'Text' rather than 'general'
• Finish

This should convert them all to display as the long number. You can then save it as a CSV file and the numbers won't be converted/formatted into scientific numbers.

Hope this helps!!