TFS 2012 - How to Import bulk of historical WI's via EXCEL, with already progressed values in State field within the excel

A user wants to import into TFS, ~ 500 historical bugs that were created and maintained in an excel template outside TFS. While they were maintained outside TFS, the user changed among others, the value of their Status field as well, i.e. there are bugs
in a progressed state e.g. already in status Closed.
Since normally in TFS, one could not directly create a new bug in State = Closed, an error would be yielded when trying to import them as is into regular Team Project. Can u please advise how to easily solve this, without hindering the state diagram of the
model in TFS, and as possible by utilizing GUI of Excel / TFS / other available tool for this purpose ?
Kind thx,

Hi!
You may use excel features for this. Simply copy & paste the state column:
Publish 500 new bugs.
Copy & paste the state column from your source table and publish.
But the reason for state may not be correct. So you may use the more difficult way:
For Source table create the custom state columns (for the cmmi template states Proposed->Active->Resolved->Closed) by this rules:
(Active state column) if (source state == "Active" || source state == "Resolved" || source state == "Closed") { value = Active } else { value = source state }
(Resolved state column) if (source state == "Resolved" || source state == "Closed") { value = Resolved } else { value = source state }
(Closed state column) if (source state == "Closed") { value = Closed } else { value = source state }
Then Publish new bugs.
Copy&paste (Active state column) values and publish.
Copy&paste (Resolved state column) values and publish.
Copy&paste (Closed state column) values and publish.

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