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That opens the text file with the Text Import Wizard which has some conversion options including forcing a field to text.

CSV files can be opened directly with just a double-click in Explorer because.csv is usually associated with Excel.

Its in Excel 365, 2019, 2016 and 2013 for Windows with features that have improved a lot over the years.

If you tried and gave up on PowerQuery, we strongly suggest giving it another go.

The beauty of this feature is that once the initial import is done, PowerQuery lets you transform the information to suit your needs.

The same steps can be repeated and even copied to other conversions.

What you see next depends on the data type, heres a typical text file import dialog.

UTF-8 is common these days but another setting might be necessary if a wider character set or language is being used in the data.

Yes, theres a lot of complex options available, Softies have done a good job of making common tasks easily available.

This is a list of the actions that will be done on the imported text.

Steps can be moved, deleted and sometimes edited from that list.

Thats because Get and Transform looks at a sample of the incoming fields before deciding what type to use.

For example, a sales region or product has changed name but the incoming file has old names.

We once needed to change an employee name that had been spelled wrongly and the incorrect spelling had got into too many lists and databases.

We want to change the two gene names to their 2020 versions.

If this choice is off, theres a real risk of a cell value being changed unintentionally by a partial match.

The changes are Applied Steps and you can see the change directly in the preview window.

The source file will be imported again and the steps applied.

Refresh will grab the source file again, apply the steps and update the worksheet table.

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