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DineshRkumar
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May 17, 2024
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Data Feed raw data column auto convert in Excel

  • May 17, 2024
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Hi Team,,, Yesterday I received raw data from Data feed in zip format. After extracting it, when I opened the file seeing "event_list" column is getting converted into "##########". not able to understand the content behind it. Please suggest here how to extract data from "############"

 

 

 

 

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Best answer by Jennifer_Dungan

I believe this is just an Excel visual display, not an actual conversion of the content....

 

See https://superuser.com/questions/65556/excel-displays-for-long-text-whats-wrong

 

 

Can you open your raw data feed into a text editor? Notepad, Notepad++, TextEdit, etc

 

You should see the data as it actually is... 

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Ankit_Chaudhary
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May 18, 2024

During initial load excel ask to convert field type simply select don't convert any you might prevent this.

Jennifer_Dungan
Jennifer_DunganAccepted solution
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May 17, 2024

I believe this is just an Excel visual display, not an actual conversion of the content....

 

See https://superuser.com/questions/65556/excel-displays-for-long-text-whats-wrong

 

 

Can you open your raw data feed into a text editor? Notepad, Notepad++, TextEdit, etc

 

You should see the data as it actually is... 

DineshRkumar
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May 22, 2024

However, we can't play much in other editor than Excel.. any better way.. please suggest..

Jennifer_Dungan
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May 23, 2024

Oh I get that, Excel is the tool for manipulating data, but you may have to try changing the data formatting to Text or General (to get it back), or as @ankit_chaudhary suggested, try and prevent Excel from converting the formatting to start with.