Opening CSV in Excel using VBA causes data to appear in two columns instead of one

Question

I created VBA code in Excel 2007/2010 to import data from a CSV file. Unfortunately, when I open the file programmatically, the data is split into two columns (A and B) for

Answer 1

I think when you do it manually Excel is reading the delimiter as ";" and not just ;.

Try this:

Workbooks.Open Filename:=wkbCsvImport, Format:=xlDelimited, Delimiter:=""";"""

EDIT:

the only way I can get this to work is by changing the file extension from csv to txt and then run this code:

Workbooks.OpenText Filename:=wkbCsvImport, _
                    DataType:=xlDelimited, semicolon:=True