A comma delimited file cannot process any information other than straight data. This means that if your Excel spreadsheet has formulas in it, only the formula result will be saved in the CSV file.

Choose tab-delimited text export to use tabs as the intra-row delimiters. This format works better than comma-delimited text if you are exporting from Excel for use in a page-layout program.

I'm importing a lot of comma delimited text files into Excel - because they all have the exact same formatting, is there a way to tell Excel to process all of them the same way? (ie, what fields ...

A CSV (comma-separated values) file is a text file in which information is separated by commas. CSV files are most commonly encountered in spreadsheets and databases. You can use a CSV file to ...

Is there anyway I can make it so if I copy and paste those comma separated list into it excel it automatically puts each thing into different fields.

If a program can output a delimited text file (I’ll get to what that means in a minute), Excel can turn it into a reasonable table. Of course, the text has to be properly prepared.