Ok looking at it another way, can I set excel to display CSV files as the raw
data, no formatting of cell contents. In essence, for CSV files I like to
open the file as if using a glorified text editor.


"Bryan Hessey" wrote:


When you input a .csv (etc) file you need only describe the format
incomming, Excel will then hold the date.time in it's standard format
and display it as requested.

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datetime.htm#SerialDates helps to explain
this.

SimonW-UK Wrote:
I was hoping to make a setting such that when opening all CSV files,
that any
date columns were auto formatted as dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss

I did see a similar post a few days ago but it was not quite the same.

Many thanks
Simon


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