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GrantTM
Feb 12, 2021Copper Contributor
Microsoft Excel not presenting CSV and Excel Workbook files correctly
Hello Excel Community, I am having challenges with my Excel app. Every time I'm opening a CSV or excel workbook file the file's cell data is not being put into sperate cells it's all being put in one...
HansVogelaar
Feb 12, 2021MVP
When you open a CSV file, Excel should use your system's list separator to split the lines into columns.
If you happen to use comma as decimal separator, you probably use semi-colon as list separator. In that case, Excel won't split the lines automatically.
You can still use Data > Text to Columns to do that.
GrantTM
Feb 14, 2021Copper Contributor
HansVogelaar Thank you so much Hans, the text to column method works really well. I'm super grateful for the help, greatly appreciated