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CSV formatting
Good evening.
I have just reinstalled Windows 10 Home in my notebook and installed O365 as well. However, now my CSV files I used to download and use without issues now do not work anymore - it is all without format and impossible for me to work - does anyone know what might be the issue? I open the CSV file using Excel and it is not usable. Below the example of what I see in the CSV file in Excel and my regional formatting already has decimal with comma. What should I do??
Tks,
André
Thanks and regards,
André
3 Replies
Hi deruas
Hope you are well.
Could you please show a screen shot of the file in notepad? It may help to see how it's laid out to determine the issue.
Cheers
Damien
I've got the same problem.
It seems like excel does not use ";" as a separator, can't find the settings for. it uses "," instead
Jon_The_IT_Man , I guess you found the answer here https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Excel/SEMI-COLON-COLUMN-SEPARATOR-INSTEAD-OF-COMMA-WHEN-WE-EXPORT-AS/m-p/414983#M28663, but that's mainly if you would like to save Excel file as csv with not-default separator,
If the task is to open csv file with another separator, you may as well to manually add (e.g. in Notepad) first line with the separator to use sep=; like
sep=; a;b;c x;y;z
It'll be opened correctly even if your system list separator is comma, first line with sep will be not shown by Excel
