Afraid not. In opening a CSV file Excel expects data, separators and end of
line characters, nothing more.

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Jim
"grok" wrote in message
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|I am writing a csv file from a program. When I open it with excel 2003 I'd
| like to have some cells merged on certain rows but not on others.
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| Is there a way that a file can be written in such a way as to contain
merge
| cell info so that when excel opens it the right rows would have merged
cells?
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| grok