How to disable General formatting when opening CSV
My users receive various CSV, TXT, and TSV files in various formats and from
various sources and they are in the habit of double clicking (or right click
- Open with) the files to open them in Excel. Excel then interprets all the
text value and applies a General format without warning the user. This
results in data corruption when it guesses wrong. EG an account code of
"1sep" gets corrupted into a date value of "9/1/2009" or a ZIP code string of
"08651" is converted to an integer "8651". How do I disable this 'feature' or
change the default type to Text?
I realize one can import with the Wizard as a workaround as well as writing
specific import macros but this is not the solution I am looking for.
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