Importing CSV with line breaks in Excel 2007

Question

I\'m working on a feature to export search results to a CSV file to be opened in Excel. One of the fields is a free-text field, which may contain line breaks, commas, quota

Answer 1

On MacOS try using Numbers

If you have access to Mac OS I have found that the Apple spreadsheet Numbers does a good job of unpicking a complex multi-line CSV file that Excel could not handle. Just open the .csv with Numbers and then export to Excel.