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Oh, come on.

Just format the range as text before pasting or importing the data (right-click -> format cells -> category = text). Text-formatted ranges don't convert input data.

The article also doesn't help saying that there is a toggle for implicit conversions. You want text, you preformat as text.

Just learn to use the damn thing before you bash it. Especially if it's your daily driver.



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