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How can you make Excel 2007 stop formatting large numbers as scientific notation?

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Kind of the inverse of this question. I frequently download CSVs from outside sources as part of my programming work. I like to examine their data in Excel because, let's face it, Excel is an ideal tool for this sort of thing. Except for one behavior: Excel attempts to outwit the data in the CSV, a…

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You can, but it takes a couple of manual steps. These steps are from Excel 2003, but I'd assume the wizard is similar in 2007: Rename the file as TXT. Don't double-click it. Open Excel Click File, Open Locate and double-click the text file It should…

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