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Mon 4 Dec 2006, 12:20 Delegate Louis said...

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Delimiters

When I try to import .csv docs from the web, Excel doesn't take comas as delimiters. I need to save them as .txt files and open them with Excel with the import wizard, and delimit by commas instead of tabs.
I'd like to be able to set commas as delimiters by default so I can download directly .csv files without saving them as .txt files beforehand.

Thanks

Louis

Mon 4 Dec 2006, 12:57 Trainer Richard said...

RE: Delimiters

When you say "import csv from the web", what do you mean. A CSV file is comma separated values, so not sure why you are getting an error. What sort of information are you downloading?

Typically excel remembers the last delimiter setting in the wizard.

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