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Importing multiline cells from csv file into excel

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Mar 15, 202625069 views
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I have a csv file (comma delimited and quoted). When csv file is opened directly from explorer excel correctly interprets the cells that are mutliline, but it messes up the character encoding (utf-8). Therefore I have to use import function (Data/Get External Data/From Text). However, when I use im…

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65001: Unicode (UTF-8)

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Fix for: Importing multiline cells from csv file into excel

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Use LibreOffice to open the file, then save in desired format: I had exactly the same problem you described when trying to use Excel 2010 to read UTF-8 MySQL data with multi-line Japanese text in some fields exported as quoted CSV with \r\n used for…

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