In earlier version of Excel (before Excel 2010) we dont have an option to select the delimiter to save the file as CSV. Only a user can save with comma delimiter or space delimiter.
however if you have a requirement to create a Pipe Delimited or & delimited csv files, you can do it by following the below steps.
This will work only for Windows 7 / XP and MS Office 2007 packages.
however if you have a requirement to create a Pipe Delimited or & delimited csv files, you can do it by following the below steps.
This will work only for Windows 7 / XP and MS Office 2007 packages.
- Close your Excel
- Navigate to control panel, Select ‘Region and Language’
- Click the ‘Additional Settings’ button
- Find the List separator and change it from a comma to your preferred delimiter such as a pipe (|).
- Exit Control panel
- Open the Excel file you want to export to a pipe delimited file
- Select File, Save As
- Change the ‘Save as type’ to ‘CSV (Comma delimited)(*.csv)’
- Change the name and file extension if you want, by default stays as csv even though a different delimiter
- Click Save
- Click OK
- Click Yes