If you change your regional settings to use the semicolon as your list
separator, you can save as .csv and it should work. But this may affect other
programs, too--since it's a windows setting.

windows start button|settings|control panel|regional and language options|
regional options tab|customize button

near the bottom.

On the other hand, if you don't want to fiddle with that setting, you could use
a macro to write your file.

Here are three sites that you could steal some code from:

Earl Kiosterud's Text Write program:
www.smokeylake.com/excel
(or directly: http://www.smokeylake.com/excel/text_write_program.htm)

Chip Pearson's:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/imptext.htm

J.E. McGimpsey's:
http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/textfiles.html


If you don't want to write your own, try Earl's program first. He has lots of
options in that program.

If you're new to macros, you may want to read David McRitchie's intro at:
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/getstarted.htm

capitan wrote:

Hello all. We have the need to export a file from excel to a semicolon
delimited text file. Is there a way to do this from Excel directly? If
not, does anyone have any other suggestions? TIA for your help.

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Dave Peterson