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How can you make Excel 2007 stop formatting large numbers as scientific notation?
Kind of the inverse of this question.
I frequently download CSVs from outside sources as part of my programming work. I like to examine their data in Excel because, let's face it, Excel is an ideal ...
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Excel CSV import treating quoted strings of numbers as numeric values, not strings
I've got a web application that is exporting its data to a CSV file. Here's one example row of the CSV file in question:
28,"65154",02/21/2013 00:00,"false","0316295","8316012,8315844","MALE"
Since ...
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How do you change default delimiter in the Text Import in Excel?
I want to import a CSV file to Excel. The CSV file has comma separated data (go figure), but the delimiter in the Text Import Wizard is set to "Tab" by default. How can I change the default to "Comma" ...
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Excel How to make Text Qualifier editable or add a new entry in the existing list?
I have a CSV file which is not properly formatted because one of the columns contains HTML code which use the same character as the Text Qualifier: the double quote.
Example:
"col1","col2","col3"
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Increase size limit of data import from csv into Excel
I have a load of data in a csv file that I'm importing into Excel, most of it is fine, but one of my columns contains up to 1000 characters of data. Unfortunately, Excel has taken it upon itself to ...
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Transform Fixed Width to CSV?
I have a whole bunch of data files with different content but identical layout. I need to convert them to CSV before importing them into a CRM application.
I usually open the tab-delimited file in ...
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