Csv to columns

The behavior of Excel when opening CSV files heavily depends on your local settings and the used under . By default Excel will assume every CSV was saved with that separator.

Which is true as long as the CSV doesn't come from another country!

If your customers are in other countries, they may see other results then you think.

_{For example, here you see that a German Excel will use semicolon instead of comma like in the U.S}

To confuse you even more, that setting interferes with the decimal symbol which can be separately set up under or via regional settings as shown above.

Excel can't use the same symbol as decimal tab and list separator.

How to open csv file in excel with columns automatically windows 10

It will automatically use comma or semicolon as a backup separator. Read more

I will take your example to create 3 files. Each with a different separator and open it with Excel.

Not the same as your Excel does?

I thought so.

So lets manually change the extension from the same CSV files to XLS and look what happens now. First, Excel will throw up a warning that the file

how to open csv file in excel with columns automatically

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