Thanks, it works. But still no way to change the excel setting?

"Max" wrote:

Try to force the file opening to go through the Text Import Wizard
(rename the file to have a .txt extension in explorer)

Then open the file from within Excel (via File Open, then select "Text
Files" in the "Files of type:" droplist)
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Max
xl 97
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