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If you have a table for export in which leading zeros and spaces have significance AND that file will only be viewed in Excel, then you can use an Excel specific convention in those fields where leading zeros or spaces should be preserved (in Excel). To implement this fix, double quote each field with leading zeros or spaces and place an equals sign (=) directly ahead of the first quote

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An evacuee relaxes in her makeshift dwelling on the floor of the Big Palette convention center. The crammed emergency quarters lack privacy, and disease can spread rapidly.

Désaveu d’un brevet relevant de la biopiraterie: un succès pour la Déclaration de Berne

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Munich/Lausanne, le 26 janvier 2010 - L’Office européen des brevets a abrogé le brevet détenu par la firme allemande Schwabe sur le Pelargonium du Cap, un géranium possédant des vertus médicales contre la bronchite issues d’un savoir ancestral sud-africain. Grâce à son médicament « Umckaolabo », à base de Pelargonium, la firme Schwabe a engrangé des profits sans pour autant partager les dividendes avec les communautés locales en Afrique du Sud, comme le demande pourtant la Convention sur la diversité biologique des Nations Unies. La décision de l’Office européen des brevets de valider le recours déposé par les communautés concernées, l’African Center for Biosafety et la Déclaration de Berne est un succès important dans la lutte contre la biopiraterie.

This may sound odd in America, where the First Amendment has pride of place in the Bill of Rights. In Europe, privacy comes first.

Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights says, “Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.” The First Amendment’s distant cousin comes later, in Article 10.

This charts my arrival to 2009’s Museum and the Web conference in Indianapolis, IN. It starts with me leaving on a jet plane and ends with the keynote by Max Anderson of the IMA. Highlights in between include being inspired by the European Design exhibit at the IMA and discovering Patachou (a restaurant I ate at everyday while in Indy). This image was reprinted on page 41 of the July 2009 issue of Convene: The magazine of the Professional Convention Management Association.