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Ok I figured it out. You have to do it in this order. 1. format the column as text. 2. paste the data in the column with "paste special" and choose text. This works fine but it doesn't help me to scan directly into the cell. So I am now scanning into word pad, then I use steps 1 and 2 after I...

I have a barcode scanner running windows ce 5.0. I am trying to scan barcodes with 18 digits directly into excel. Unfortunatly since the number is so long, it shows up as garbage. I know I can put an apostrophe in the cell but I don't want to do that on each cell. I have to scan 7000 boxes and...