Answers.Body: <p>one thing I have found has helped me and many others is to do an export from CiviCRM of a sample set of the fields you are going to import, then you can see how civicrm expects fields, tags and other data structures.</p>
  
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Body: <p>When importing data into CiviCRM, do I need to reformat my data in any way so that it is in conformance with CiviCRM data formats?  </p>
  
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Comments.Text: Have you seen https://docs.civicrm.org/user/en/stable/common-workflows/importing-data-into-civicrm/ ?
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Title: Converting My Data to CiviCRM data formats
ThreadText: # Converting My Data to CiviCRM data formats
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-09-21)
  
  When importing data into CiviCRM, do I need to reformat my data in any way so that it is in conformance with CiviCRM data formats?
  
  **Tags:** import
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Have you seen https://docs.civicrm.org/user/en/stable/common-workflows/importing-data-into-civicrm/ ?  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2016-09-22. Score: 6
  
  one thing I have found has helped me and many others is to do an export from CiviCRM of a sample set of the fields you are going to import, then you can see how civicrm expects fields, tags and other data structures.
  
  
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