Thanks Earl for the solution, but I need to explain to my client why the
stated behaviour is occuring. That is, is the behaviour as per design?

"Earl Kiosterud" wrote:

Ron,

Try changing the file's extension to txt. That should invoke the Text
Import Wizard, which will let you specify your delimiter.

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"Ron P" <Ron wrote in message
...
Regardless of the list separator value in regional settings, when
double-clicking the csv file, Excel 97 opens the file using "," as the
delimiter. Otherwise, when opening the file via FileOpen in Excel or
using
open with...Excel, the regional settings are not ignored. Is there a
reason
for this? Thanks in advance.