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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Could you import the column in as text to preserve it?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Sure, but sometimes you need to do a pivot table and get transformed, or you while working you accidentally made it a number, or just because excel being excel it import the number as scientific notation, or any other case.