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Re:The worst of the two worlds: Excel meets Outlook by phonon on Sunday February 14, 2021 @07:10PM (#26137552)
> Maybe for manual entry, but not when importing a foreign format like one if the many CSV variants that we run into.

Use Get and Transform Data -> CSV

You can control the typing per column when you import, split columns, etc.

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Re:The worst of the two worlds: Excel meets Outlook by dspillett on Monday February 15, 2021 @05:42AM (#26141379)
Unfortunately, people working for our clients are not trained to do this. Or are but take the quicker option and hope that it works.
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