>I have the need to send data to an Excel spreadsheet. I'm using automation to write the values out to the spreadsheet but one of the rows of data is a four digit hexadecimal number which is sometimes interpreted by Excel as a exponential expression.
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>I've tried to find a way to Excel to format that column/range of cells as text but either the answer is hidden well or the lack of sleep has caused me to miss the answer in the Excel help file and Office Automation with Visual Foxpro book by Tamar Granor and Della Martin.
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>The current, mostly working bit of code...
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> .Columns[1].value = lnPartCnt
> .Columns[2].NumberFormat = '00##'
> .Columns[2].value = CastHist.SerialNo
> .Columns[3].value = CastHist.MastHeat
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>Examples of the hex data that is converted...
>2E63
>30E8
>30E7
The "E" is interpreted as "exponent", as you are probably aware.
If you want to have Excel accept this as text, you can use Cell.Value = ['] + "2E63", for instance. That is, start with a single quotation.
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