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José Maurício Gonçalves dos Santos
Oct 04, 2017Copper Contributor
Copy and paste OR import trouble with exponential numbers
Hello, When I copy an number or import a TXT file with an negative exponential number (bellow) to excel 3.03425675881e-05 the number is altered to a positive exponential and even the...
SergeiBaklan
Oct 04, 2017Diamond Contributor
Hi Jose,
I was not able to reproduce it. I copy your number and paste to Excel; when create txt file with it and import - have correct number in both cases
Could you please attach your txt file with few numbers to check?
- José Maurício Gonçalves dos SantosOct 04, 2017Copper Contributor
Dear Sergei,
Thank you for your response. I discovered the problem, I use my computer with a , for decimals and not . as in the american system. When I changed it it works just fine. Best regards.
- SergeiBaklanOct 04, 2017Diamond Contributor
So far so good, thank you for the update
- alyna47Oct 08, 2021Copper Contributor
I am facing the same problem, when I paste
-4.424312e-003 in excel it gets translated to -4.42E3