<p>Does anyone happen to know if there is a token I can add to my csv for a certain field so Excel doesn't try to convert it to a date?</p>

<p>I'm trying to write a .csv file from my application and one of the values happens to look enough like a date that Excel is automatically converting it from text to a date.  I've tried putting all of my text fields (including the one that looks like a date) within double quotes, but that has no effect.</p>

If you put an inverted comma at the start of the field, it will be interpreted as text.
Example:
```
25/12/2008
```
becomes
```
'25/12/2008
```
You are also able to select the field type when importing.