The resulting data is human-readable and can be easily viewed with a text editor like Notepad or a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel. You can also open CSV files in spreadsheet programs, which make them easier to read. For example, if you have Microsoft Excel installed on your computer, you can just double-click a.
Excel and other spreadsheet programs present the contents of a. CSV file as if it were a spreadsheet, sorting it into columns.
However, many CSV files are made for importing into other programs. You might export your contacts from Google Contacts, your saved passwords from LastPass, or a large amount of data from a database program. Learn more. Asked 13 years, 1 month ago. Active 7 years, 2 months ago. Viewed k times. For example, if the CSV file contains Then Excel shows it as 5. Is there a way to override this and display ? I use Excel Improve this question.
JimmyPena 8, 6 6 gold badges 41 41 silver badges 63 63 bronze badges. Sergey Stadnik Sergey Stadnik 2, 7 7 gold badges 25 25 silver badges 29 29 bronze badges. See this question for a macro solution to this problem. Nowadays there are a lot of Excel-writing libraries out there. It should be pretty easy to create. If your users are still using Excel for some reason common when this question was originally asked, but hopefully not very likely today , there are also some. For people stumbling across this question today, it's very likely you don't have to roll your own.
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. My preference is the first option. Option 1 — Change the data in the file You could change the data in the.
Excel will have kept the data as a formula, but copying the column and using paste special values will get rid of the formula but retain the formatting Option 2 — Format the data If it is simply a format issue and all your data in that column has a three digits length.
Then open the data in Excel and then format the column containing the data with this custom format Option 3 — Change the file extension to.
Step by step: Change the file extension from. The 'File Import Wizard' will be launched. Set the 'File type' to 'Delimited' and click on the 'Next' button. Under Delimiters, tick 'Comma' and click on the 'Next' button. Click on each column of your data that is displayed and select a 'Column data format'. The column with the value '' should be formatted as 'Text'. Click on the finish button, the file will be opened by Excel with the formats that you have specified.
Improve this answer. Robert Mearns Robert Mearns DIF is associated with Quicktime on a lot of computers. Just FYI : Otherwise, great tips! I've got the same issue, and none of the above are appropriate sorry. I need the CSV file to be correct so that it can be imported into another application — hookenz.
Please note that option 1 is not always good, if you have a cell of let say "1E02, whatever text" and then you put an equal in front then Excel will imagine you entered a formula. First the formula will be wrong but second and most importantly it will split your text over 2 cells. Thanks for Option 1. Fixed my scientific notation problem without any extra work. Show 6 more comments. Mark Ransom Mark Ransom k 39 39 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.
I did not know about this format. It looks like something that I could use. My goto output format from now on! It's strange that they never extended the format to support it, as they did with RTF. But that simplicity keeps it from being robust. See Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates for an eye-opening example. I wasn't aware of SYLK exploits. Show 5 more comments. It should highlight. Spreadsheet programs display the data in a way that is easier to read and work with than a text editor.
After double-clicking the file, you may see a prompt asking which program you want to open it with. Select Microsoft Excel. Excel will display the data in a new workbook. Select OpenOffice Calc. First, open a new spreadsheet file in Google Sheets. You can probably keep the default values on the Import file window, but look over them just to make sure. Then select Import data. I'm a teacher and developer with freeCodeCamp.
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