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White space

anetal179
6 - Meteoroid
‎02-24-2021 01:54 PM

Hi.

I have a problem. I have a formula: if [period]= '3' then ' 3' endif

 

When I export to excel the leading white space doesn't exist. How to solve this problem?

 

 

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pedrodrfaria
13 - Pulsar
‎02-25-2021 03:59 AM

@anetal179 I'm pretty sure you will not be able to do this. Excel will read the field as a numeric field and give you the error message letting you know that it automatically updated that field to be a numeric field.

 

The only way to not let it do this (as far as I know, maybe you can disable this using excel settings config.), would be to make sure there was a text/string value in that field, be it an apostrophe as some of my peers have mentioned or be it a invisible character. 

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