Timeline for Excel removes delimiters from first field of "foreign" CSVs
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| Apr 5 at 0:22 | comment | added | Jack Deeth | Yep, we tried that workaround, but unfortunately this is beyond our users... we're looking to get the data fixed upstream so the first column will not contain potentially-comma-bearing text data. But it looks like either no-one's encountered the "Excel inexplicably removes quotemarks from text" issue before or there's just no solution within Excel. I say we take off and nuke the whole app from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. | |
| Apr 4 at 19:47 | comment | added | Ron Rosenfeld |
Import rather than Open the file use either the legacy import wizard or Power Query (Get&Transform=>from Text/CSV). And if you have users for whom this is difficult, you can always use a button to trigger a macro that brings up the select file dialog, and the rest is automated.
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| Apr 4 at 17:41 | answer | added | Jack Deeth | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 4 at 16:48 | answer | added | LPChip | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 4 at 14:11 | answer | added | Paul | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 4 at 13:45 | history | edited | Jack Deeth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 183 characters in body
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| S Apr 4 at 13:27 | history | asked | Jack Deeth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |