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 Art Gerald Ranque (agranque)
Sun Life Financial Inc

Sun Life Financial Inc
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Sun Life Financial Inc
Posted: January 19, 2018
Last activity: January 22, 2018
Posted: 19 Jan 2018 3:33 EST
Last activity: 22 Jan 2018 20:58 EST
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Pasting values to Excel removes leading zeroes

Hi.

My automation involves copying a value that contains leading zeroes and then pasting it to Excel. The automation copies "0077788", but when it's pasted, Excel somehow deletes the leading zeroes. Manually, I can use the "Format Cells" option in Excel and click Text, but how do I do that in the automation?

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Posted: 3 years ago
Posted: 22 Jan 2018 20:58 EST
Andrew Grondin (grona)
PEGA
GCS Solutions Engineer I
Pegasystems Inc.
US

The default data format for Excel sheets eats leading zeros like that. There's no way to modify formatting with the connector; you'll have to pre-set the format for the cells.