Hi Bengt

Its probable that the Regional settings are different on the computers.
Yours must be set to use ; as the separator, hence Excel knows exactly how
to parse the data.
Other machines may be set with ' as the separator, so Excel doesn't know how
to parse the data with ;

If you cannot make the Regional settings the same on all computers, when
Excel imports it all into column a, select column ADataText to
ColumnsDelimitedOther ; Finish
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Regards
Roger Govier

"Bengt" wrote in message
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I write semicolon separated .csv-files from another application and open
them in Excel. It works excellent on my computer. I just open the file and
data is organised in columns as I would expect.
If I do the same thing on certain other computers with the same Excel
version (2003), all data of each row is imported to the first Excel colums
as one string. I have looked a lot for a setting in Excel that contol this
import, but not found any. Have I missed something?
It is of course possible to import data from the csv-file by data/import
external data, but that is a more complicated way, and the people who
shall work with this is not so familiar with Excel.
To sum it up: How is data import controlled when a text file is opened in
Excel?