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    1. COYeah, like when a file with 10000 usernames has one such as "april25", that gets converted to a date, and eventually gets processed as "apr-25", resulting in a "username not found" error, because you didn't expect Excel to be converting a single value to a date, 4000 records into the file, while leaving the rest text. What lame CSV reading code; really, isn't it supposed to guess the type based on the first X records and stick with it? Or leave it all text. If I want it formatted as "general", I can pick that later. By assuming "general" right from the start, it risks text data corruption.
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    2. COI had the issue when doing copy and paste. For all searching the solution, select the target column, set it to a string/text format, then copy source and do a special paste (right-click) with 'values only'. Preserves values, no date formatting.
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    3. COI just want to add that I consider this behavior of Excel to be a serious flaw. What about all the people that don't have the luxury to change the contents of the csv file prior to importing to Excel? Or what about people who don't realize this problem until after making lots of other changes to the CSV file? It makes working with CSV files in Excel a mess.
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