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Why does excel always say "..may contain features that are not compatible with CSV" when saving a CSV file?

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Mar 15, 202682972 views
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Every CSV I've ever tried to save from Excel (2010, anyway) says . Why is this? Is there any way to save CSV files from excel that do not contain this message? Even the following file (saved as a .csv) will cause this to happen, if you try to save it: I've even just created a new spreadsheet in exc…

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test1,test2
test3,test4

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Fix for: Why does excel always say "..may contain features that are not compatible with CSV" when saving a CSV file?

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Microsoft Excel will claim this when saving to just about any format other than .xls or .xlsx. The reason is that only these (proprietary Microsoft) formats can support Excel features like formulas, (conditional) formatting, charts, multiple workshe…

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