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Format a column in Excel worksheet to Text

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Posted on by Fredrik Brandt

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Hi,
How can I format my Excel workbook to have the column as Text?

If I pass this field (defined as a string):

xlsWorkSheet.cells().item(1,4).value(custTable.VATNum);

It will be regarded as an integer.

I have in my field in column D a string (say "0001").

When Excel creates the column it interprets the string as number and removes the leading "000" and will convert it to integer.

I don't want that and the text should remain.

Can I use this below in some way?

xlsWorkSheet.cells().range('D:D').?

Any idéas?

Regards,

/Fredrik.

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Hi Fredrik Brandt,

Check whether the below Microsoft documentation will help your scenario.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/excel.range.numberformat

Thanks,

Girish S.

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Fredrik Brandt 15 on at

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Hi again,

I found it.

//Format column D to Text in the worksheet - @ means data stored in excel as string

xlsWorkSheet.cells().range('D:D').numberFormat('@');

Thanks.

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