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Formatting a comma-delimited CSV to force Excel to interpret value as a string

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I've been searching around for a while trying to figure out how to output a CSV file in such a way to force Excel to interpret the values as a string and not try to convert them to numbers or dates.

e.g.:

"141", "10/11/2002", "350.00", "1311742251"

Excel tries to "intelligently" convert all these to its native date/number formats. Is there a way around that?


EDIT: Clarified the intent of my question, sorry for confusion.


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