# Set data type when importing CSV or Excel

**URL:** <https://community.easymorph.com/t/set-data-type-when-importing-csv-or-excel/88>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Created:** [February 5, 2017, 12:34pm UTC](https://community.easymorph.com/t/set-data-type-when-importing-csv-or-excel/88 "2017-02-05T12:34:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Arto](https://community.easymorph.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@Arto](https://community.easymorph.com/u/Arto)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 12:34pm UTC](https://community.easymorph.com/t/set-data-type-when-importing-csv-or-excel/88/1 "2017-02-05T12:34:46Z")

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Most tools opening CSV or Excel files allow for each column to set its data type. This is very useful for simple transformation such as number in text to numbers...

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