I must import a text file. It contains numbers of varying formats. They
could include a colon and a period or just a colon... zeros at beginning and
end, etc.

I want to retain the format of the varying numbers WHEN IMPORTING a pipe
delimited text file.

How do I force Excel to import all data in the text file as TEXT. Simply
selecting format "Text" for the entire worksheet (before importing) does not
do it - that selection is overwritten.

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