YES!! I seem to remember a few versions of Excel ago there was a way to import data and set the data type for each column in a preview window to see what it wou

YES!! I seem to remember a few versions of Excel ago there was a way to import data and set the data type for each column in a preview window to see what it would look like. And to your point, it's very easy to select an existing column in Excel and change the data type anyway. So why not just make everything a string by default?