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

Line breaks inside double quotes are perfectly fine according to CSV standard. The parsing of line breaks in Excel depends on the OS setting of list separator:

1. Windows: you need to set the list seperator to comma (Region and language » Formats » Advanced) Source: https://superuser.com/questions/238944/how-to-force-excel-to-open-csv-files-with-data-arranged-in-columns#answer-633302

2. Mac: Need to change the region to US (then to manually change back other settings to your preference) Source: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2016-macexcel/line-separator-comma-semicolon-in-excel-2016-for/7db1b1a0-0300-44ba-ab9b-35d1c40159c6 (see NewmanLee's answer)

Don't forget to close Excel completely before trying again.

I've succesfully replicated the issue and was able to fix it using the above in both Max and Windows.