Hi, when you are attempting to open the file in excel have you selected
"Files of type" and chosen Text?. CSV stands for Comma separated value. Excel
should have no problem recognising it. it shoud then step you through the
process of formatting it for excel, just choose "," as the separator.
Also you can first see if the file has good data in it by opening it with
"note pad". In explorer right click the file and select "Open with" "Note
pad" if the file looks ok here then Excel will have no problem with it

"Karen Gudde" wrote:

I receive files in .csv and they open up and are not understandable. How can
I get these to open up in a normal .xls file? I have tried to save them to
the desktop and right clicking on them to open them but that doesn't work
either.