This document offers solutions to common challenges encountered when working with School or LEA ID data that gets incorrectly formatted by Excel. It provides detailed examples and step-by-step strategies for troubleshooting issues such as Excel converting long string IDs to scientific notation or truncating numerical data by dropping leading zeros - problems that may prevent the successful reading of files by the CRDC data collection submission system. The guide offers potential fixes suitable for different versions of Excel and varying CSV file creation scenarios.
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