To properly display Japanese text from a Google Form survey in Excel, you must download the survey responses as a CSV file, open it in Excel, go to the "Get External Data" menu and import the CSV file as UTF-8 encoded text, selecting the appropriate column delimiters and starting cell for the data. This will allow Japanese characters from the survey to be correctly encoded and displayed in Excel.

1. Encoding in Excel
Japanese text
Google Form
Excel
Encoding
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2. If your survey used Japanese text, you
will need to follow the following steps
• Download the survey data as a CSV file
• Open Excel
• Go to “Get External Data” and follow the steps described in
slides 3-7
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3. Data menu --- Get External Data ---
“From Text”
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4. Choose the CSV file you have saved.
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Choose
Unicode
(UTF-8)

5. Click on appropriate delimiters.
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6. Format of each column can be adjusted. The
default is General.
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7. Tell Excel where you want your dataset to
start. Default should be Cell A1.
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8. Voila! Problem solved.
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