Saving to CSV in Excel loses regional date format

Question

I have a .xls I need to convert to .csv

The file contains some date columns. The format on the date is \"*14/03/2001\" which, according to Excel means the date respo

Answer 1

A not so scalable fix that I used for this is to copy the data to a plain text editor, convert the cells to text and then copy the data back to the spreadsheet.