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Does anyone know how to get around that Excel CSV issue, where Excel will "helpfully" convert a number-like value into a meaningless valu...

Does anyone know how to get around that Excel CSV issue, where Excel will "helpfully" convert a number-like value into a meaningless value in scientific notation, even if the number was quoted like "1234"? That was a huge pain point in a previous work that I did.

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Does anyone know how to get around that Excel CSV issue, where Excel will "helpfully" convert a number-like value into a meaningless valu...

yen223Jun 4, 2015, 10:00 AM

Does anyone know how to get around that Excel CSV issue, where Excel will "helpfully" convert a number-like value into a meaningless value in scientific notation, even if the number was quoted like "1234"? That was a huge pain point in a previous work that I did.

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