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TheMartha
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10 years ago

PowerBI export to excel with CSV

Hi there,   We have had issues with opening csv files to excel since June. Before June we could open our csv/powerBI without problems directly in excel. This gave the users the opportunity to see t...
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Grumelo
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10 years ago

The CSV generated by Power BI desktop are well formatted but using UTF 8 and the coma character as a seperator.

 

If you are facing the issue that opening the file directly in Excel is not producing the expected result it because of the List separator setting on your computer.

 

Very often it's set to semi-colon: ; 

 

Change it to comma: , you will be able to open the CSV files again directly in Excel.

 

To change the setting go to: Control Panel / Region and Langiuage / Advanced Setting / List Separator

 

The extended character issue is another story...