Unicode format of what? You mean CSV file in Unicode (UTF-8) encoding? Well,
I'd already written in the first post that it's impossible to do so.

"Dave O" wrote:

Perhaps my mistake was offering to help. Asking again, in a different
way: if saving from .XLS to .CSV doesn't work in the manner you need,
will your foreign offices be able to read your file if you save direct
from XLS format to Unicode format?