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When importing CSVs, does Excel have a limit of 32,767 characters or 32,758 characters?
According to the documentation, Excel has a limit of 32,767 characters per cell.
However, when I save a CSV file that looks like this:
"Cell with exactly 32,767 characters........","...
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Excel csv-import into table referenced by name
I have a worksheet called raw_data where I import some data via the Data-Import Wizard. This created a new name-referenced range called abc.csv.
However if I try to create a table on another ...
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Formatting date in excel for csv upload
I am looking to upload a csv file to Google apps. I am outputting my date from SQL as mm/dd/yy but when I try and save it in excel as a csv it changes my date format to mm/dd/yyyy.
Is there a way to ...
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How to setup a CSV web datasource
In Excel, I can import a CSV from the web as text by simply pasting in the URL as a file name, but when I ask Excel to update, it has stripped the URL and tries to find a file on the local hard drive ...
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Loading UTF8 CSV files generated on a Mac into Excel on Windows: does not recognize encoding
When I generate a UTF8 CSV file in Excel (or some other way) on Windows and then open it n Excel, I expect it to ask me to choose the right encoding.
I got a UTF8 CSV file that was generated on a Mac. ...
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Open Colon delimited file from command line in Excel
I want to create a shortcut or a command to open a file that uses a colon : as a delimiter in excel.
I know via the UI I can
click "From Text/CSV"
select a file
click Import
select a ...
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Import csv file in excel scrambles characters
I'm trying to import a csv file that I created myself out of a python script. I'm struggling with encoding. The csv file is encoded in utf-8 with unix style line endings. TI"m on a german macos ...
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Is it possible to make Excel auto-filter case sensitive?
I have a CSV file I opened with Excel 2013 because I wanted to find errors in a specific column.
Here is an extract of data:
"ID";"LANGUAGE";"TYPE";"NAME";"ACTIVE";"CITY";"POSTAL_CODE";"...
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Default character encoding for Excel Text Wizard?
A large part of my job is to run an SQL query, save the results as a UFT-8 encoded csv file then import it into Excel for further manipulation and distribution.
When I import the csv file into Excel ...
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How to specify semi colon character ';' as a line ending character when importing CSV to Excel on Mac
(Using Microsoft Excel form Mac version 15.18)
Can see delimiters for the columns in the import steps, but no-where is there an option for defining what the line ending character is.
I need this so ...
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Get rid of warning for external data connection
In Excel 2011 for Mac, I'm using an external data link to collect data from a CSV file generated by a third party application. The CSV is continuously filled, so I want to update the data every time I ...
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read excel sheet into jagged array
I am a programmer but recently new to both powershell and vba. I found this simple but effective command in powershell to read in a csv file and you can then immediately access "columns" by their ...
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How to automatically import data from csv file and append to existing Excel table
I have a .csv file and a master excel file. The master file contains a table and I would like to automatically append the data in the .csv file to the existing table. The data has the same headers and ...
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How to output a CSV file from a matrix of Excel formulas using multiple files?
I am receiving on a weekly basis a list of Excel spreadsheets from a supplier (around 40 spreadsheets) with data in a specific format. Since the format is a bit complex and can't be converted to CSV ...
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Change line endings and delimiter format (permanently) when saving to CSV from Excel
I'm using Excel on Mac and it's always painful to have to reopen all exported CSVs in another text editor just to change the line endings from "CR" to "LF" and the delimiter from ";" to ","
Is there ...
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