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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 ...
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