# Exporting Tags

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/exporting-tags/3228>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [August 29, 2011, 9:38am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/exporting-tags/3228 "2011-08-29T09:38:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![peadair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/da6949/32.png) [@peadair](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/peadair)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 9:38am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/exporting-tags/3228/1 "2011-08-29T09:38:45Z")

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Hi

I was just wondering if when exporting tags as a .csv file whether there was a way of preventing the scaling mode to turning to scientific on the excel sheet, the problem I am having is that when I export the tag and the Raw value (Hi) is at a value of 345,600,000 it is exporting as 3.46E+08 and when i import them back in the value is coming back in as 3.46 which is effecting my values as I am sre you can imagine. Now I know i can highlight the column in the excel sheet and format the cell to Numeric or general but my concern is that if someone new is working on the project and they forget to this or are not aware of this problem.

Kind Regards

Peadair

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**Author:** ![Travis.Cox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Travis.Cox](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Travis.Cox)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/exporting-tags/3228/2 "2011-08-29T14:54:22Z")

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The problem is that the export file is a CSV and Excel doesn’t know not to use scientific notation. You just have to format it in excel before saving.