We have a vendor whom I do not enjoy working with. They have a limited way of getting us our data that we need (html, xls, pdf).
Excel seems like the logical choice, but the data is basically a formatted report in there and not straight data.
The problem I am having is that one column comes in with numbers and text. For example this is what is in column B.
1 - Location Name
10
20
20
...
When it imports that data into a table, it drops the "1 - location Name" and only brings in the other numeric values. i need that first part so I know which locations those amounts are assigned to. In the file there are 20 locations with varying amounts in that column. I have tried to manually set that column to text before import and it still only brings in everything but that. I created tables with that field set as Varchar Max but doesn't help.
Thoughts?