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Excel Exponential format problem
- 6 years ago
Hi Anonymous ,
That is a limitation of excel itself as you can see in the link below excel only saves the first 15 numbers, so even if you add a xlsx you would get zeros and not the values.
On the first post you add the exponential was of 14 so everything worked properly, if you are abble to extract in text, csv or similar maybe the issue can be solved.
MFelix Thanks, that's a very cool trick! Unfortunately I still lose my last digits, they just turn to zeros. Ie 8,69113E+24 becomes 8691130400900000000000000.
As mentioned in another reply, I've noticed the problem goes away when open the doc and save as .xlsx. The original is a .xls. The data source is an export from an old software program and exporting as .xlsx is not an option 😞
Hi Anonymous ,
That is a limitation of excel itself as you can see in the link below excel only saves the first 15 numbers, so even if you add a xlsx you would get zeros and not the values.
On the first post you add the exponential was of 14 so everything worked properly, if you are abble to extract in text, csv or similar maybe the issue can be solved.