Excel importing is insanely fussy and nearly impossible to remotely troubleshoot, but I'll try a bit. What's the import designation for that field? VARCHAR(255) or VARCHAR(MAX)? Is it possibly int or something else?
Must you import from excel or can you have your users save the files as CSVs? They can do that right from Excel when they're done fussing with the file.
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