I know this is an old question, but the problem is not going away soon. CSV files are easy to generate from most programming languages, rather small, human-readable in a crunch with a plain text editor, and ubiquitous. The problem is not only with dates in text fields, but anything numeric also gets converted from text to numbers. A couple of examples where this is problematic: ZIP/postal codes telephone numbers government ID numbers which sometimes can start with one or more zeroes (0), which get thrown away when converted to numeric. Or the value contains characters that can be confused with mathematical operators (as in dates: /, -). Two cases that I can think of that the "prepending =" solution, as mentioned previously, might not be ideal is where the file might be imported into a program other than MS Excel (MS Word's Mail Merge function comes to mind), where human-readability might be important. My hack to work around this If one pre/appends a non-numeric and/or non-date character in the value, the value will be recognized as text and not converted. A non-printing character would be good as it will not alter the displayed value. However, the plain old space character (\s, ASCII 32) doesn't work for this as it gets chopped off by Excel and then the value still gets converted. But there are various other printing and non-printing space characters that will work well. The easiest however is to append (add after) the simple tab character (\t, ASCII 9). Benefits of this approach: Available from keyboard or with an easy-to-remember ASCII code (9), It doesn't bother the importation, Normally does not bother Mail Merge results (depending on the template layout - but normally it just adds a wide space at the end of a line). (If this is however a problem, look at other characters e.g. the zero-width space (ZWSP, Unicode U+200B) is not a big hindrance when viewing the CSV in Notepad (etc), and could be removed by find/replace in Excel (or Notepad etc). You don't need to import the CSV, but can simply double-click to open the CSV in Excel. If there's a reason you don't want to use the tab, look in an Unicode table for something else suitable. Another option might be to generate XML files, for which a certain format also is accepted for import by newer MS Excel versions, and which allows a lot more options similar to .XLS format, but I don't have experience with this. So there are various options. Depending on your requirements/application, one might be better than another. Addition It needs to be said that newer versions (2013+) of MS Excel don't open the CSV in spreadsheet format any more - one more speedbump in one's workflow making Excel less useful... At least, instructions exist for getting around it. See e.g. this Stackoverflow: How to correctly display .csv files within Excel 2013? .

在微软Office 2016版本中，这仍然是一个问题，这让我们这些研究基因名称的人感到不安，如MARC1、MARCH1、SEPT1等。 我发现最实用的解决方案是在R中生成一个“。csv”文件，然后将与Excel用户打开/共享:

以文本(记事本)形式打开CSV文件 复制它(ctrl+a, ctrl+c)。 粘贴到一个新的excel表格中-它将全部粘贴在一列作为长文本字符串。 选择/选择此列。 转到Data-“Text to columns…”，在打开的窗口中选择“delimited”(下一步)。检查“逗号”被标记(标记它将显示数据与下面列的分离)(下一步)，在这个窗口中，您可以选择您想要的列并将其标记为文本(而不是通用)(完成)。

HTH

(假设Excel 2003…)

当使用文本到列向导时，在步骤3中，您可以为每个列指定数据类型。单击预览中的列，将行为不端的列从“常规”更改为“文本”。

2018

唯一适合我的解决方案(也没有修改CSV)。

Excel 2010:

创建新工作簿 数据>从文本>选择您的CSV文件 在弹出框中选择“Delimited”单选按钮，然后点击“Next >” 分隔符复选框:只勾选“逗号”，取消勾选其他选项，然后单击“下一步>” 在“数据预览”中，滚动到最右，然后按住shift并单击最后一列(这将选中所有列)。现在在“列数据格式”中选择单选按钮“文本”，然后单击“完成”。

Excel office365:(客户端版本)

创建新工作簿 数据>从文本/CSV >选择您的CSV文件 数据类型检测>不检测

注意:Excel office365 (web版本)，当我写这篇文章时，你将无法做到这一点。

嗨，我也有同样的问题，

我写这个vbscipt来创建另一个CSV文件。新的CSV文件将在每个字段的字体中有一个空格，因此excel将把它理解为文本。

所以你用下面的代码创建了一个。vbs文件(例如Modify_CSV.vbs)，保存并关闭它。将原始文件拖放到vbscript文件中。它将在相同的位置创建一个文件名为“SPACE_ADDED”的新文件。

Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments

Set objFso = createobject("scripting.filesystemobject")

dim objTextFile
dim arrStr ' an array to hold the text content
dim sLine  ' holding text to write to new file

'Looping through all dropped file
For t = 0 to objArgs.Count - 1
    ' Input Path
    inPath = objFso.GetFile(wscript.arguments.item(t))

    ' OutPut Path
    outPath = replace(inPath, objFso.GetFileName(inPath), left(objFso.GetFileName(inPath), InStrRev(objFso.GetFileName(inPath),".") - 1) & "_SPACE_ADDED.csv")

    ' Read the file
    set objTextFile = objFso.OpenTextFile(inPath)


    'Now Creating the file can overwrite exiting file
    set aNewFile = objFso.CreateTextFile(outPath, True) 
    aNewFile.Close  

    'Open the file to appending data
    set aNewFile = objFso.OpenTextFile(outPath, 8) '2=Open for writing 8 for appending

    ' Reading data and writing it to new file
    Do while NOT objTextFile.AtEndOfStream
        arrStr = split(objTextFile.ReadLine,",")

        sLine = ""  'Clear previous data

        For i=lbound(arrStr) to ubound(arrStr)
            sLine = sLine + " " + arrStr(i) + ","
        Next

        'Writing data to new file
        aNewFile.WriteLine left(sLine, len(sLine)-1) 'Get rid of that extra comma from the loop


    Loop

    'Closing new file
    aNewFile.Close  

Next ' This is for next file

set aNewFile=nothing
set objFso = nothing
set objArgs = nothing

SELECT CONCAT('\'',NOW(),'\''), firstname, lastname 
FROM your_table
INTO OUTFILE 'export.csv' 
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' 
ENCLOSED BY '\"' 
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'