I have been trying to import this excel file my mysql database, and it has been rough.
There are around 7,000 rows in the .xls file, but when I export it to .csv and parse it with PHP I get one of two issues:

* Excel does not escape anything, ie. the commas in each row split the data
* When I change all commas to \* then export for some reason excel changes a whole bunch of lines to a bunch of pound signs #####.

(Is there a reason it does this?)

I can upload the .xls somewhere if need be.