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CSVs need an option to open as text. Or at least to tell people "hey, there butchered your data for ya" with an undo option. I got a ticket from IT dept (lol) that a CSV is the wrong format. It wasn't.


This article says the user will be notified if any data is automatically converted when opening a CSV. This should have been done a decade ago but I'm still glad to see it.


> When you select the When loading a .csv file or similar file, notify me of any automatic number conversions check box,

From what I can tell, these are all opt-in via settings. So it won't stop unaware users from accidentally messing up csvs




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