title: Format Excel column as text
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13282410/c-sharp-extract-formatted-text-from-excel-through-oledb">C# extract formatted text from Excel through OLEDB</a>  </p>
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  <p>Can i somehow format an excel column and it's data as text, before fetching the data from it ?
  I'm using C# and .NET Framework 4.0</p>