NoPublic, bureaucrat, administrator
6,632
edits
Changes
no edit summary
{|
|- valign="top"
|
{| class="wikitable"
|-
| [[Image:Csv Excel correct data type.png|250px|center]]
| [[Image:Csv Excel changed to date.png|250px|center]]
| [[Image:Csv Excel changed to date2.png|250px|center]]
|- align="center"
| ''How it should be''
| ''Excel transforms to Date''
| ''Result if you change the column to Text''
|}
{{Warning | When you open the CSV file in Excel, Excel will automatically interpret data like '''1-10''' as '''10-Jan'''.
Therefore check carefully the result in Excel before sharing the export result with others. This page describes a word around workaround for this '''Excel ''' behaviour.}}
<ol>
<li>Change ''Column data format'' to '''Text''' and verify that the format is set to '''Text''' for the columns that Excel otherwise will change to the wrong data type or data format.</li>
<li>Click '''Finish'''.</li>
[[Image:Csv Excel correct data type.png|250px|center]]<li>Save as the file in xlsx.</li><li>Close the Excel file and open the file again before you share it in order to verify that the data still has the correct format.</li>
</ol>
{{NavBox Technical Notes}}
[[Category:NAA]]
