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Control data conversions in Excel for Windows and Mac

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Aug 25, 2024

(Originally published on October 19, 2023 by Chirag Fifadra) Hi, Microsoft 365 Insiders! My name is Chirag Fifadra, and I’m a Product Manager on the Excel team. I'm thrilled to announce that, ...

Updated Aug 25, 2024

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Jan 06, 2025

This setting sounded SO promising. The automatic reformatting of text data is often so opposite of helpful. Alas, although I found this setting and unchecked all the boxes, restarted Excel, rebooted my PC, and regenerated the .csv file... the problem persists! Ugh.