Sorry. In this case, I simply put a single quote "'" in front each entry with a two digit number, so they were all interpreted as text. The list was short enough for this to be a good and timely answer.

Please note that Sergey put in a link to a more complete answer to this problem.

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>>I am trying to import a table from Excel that has a column that is two chars in lenth. Some of the entries are made up of two numbers, some of a number and a char, and some of two chars. I have formatted the Excel cells as text, and I have made sure that the first entry row is a two char entry, but DTS still is interpreting the column as a INT and does not see the entries that are not just two numbers. How can I get past this?
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>>-- Later - There has not yet been a reply to this message, and I have found a solution.