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    Saving Excel to a Comma Separated Text File

    Hi Excel People

    I am trying to create a file to upload to the bank in Excel as the accounting system won't do it. :-(

    I need to create a text file, with commas that separate the fields. If I save it as a text file there are no commas and if I save it as a csv then the bank upload fails as its a unknown file type. Any ideas?

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    Re: Saving Excel to a Comma Separated Text File

    Welcome to the forum.

    This is untested, but save as .csv, then manually change the file suffix from .csv to .txt - see if this works.
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    Re: Saving Excel to a Comma Separated Text File

    Thanks for you response.

    When I rename the file in Explorer it stays as a CSV file. I can open it in Notepad and resave it as a text file and it keeps the commas. Its's not ideal as I want to keep it as simple as possible.

    Any other thoughts? The perfect way would be able to do it straight from Excel.

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    Re: Saving Excel to a Comma Separated Text File

    Is your problem the comma or the semi-comma?
    Could you show a 2 to 3 line of what you want for clarification?

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