How do I save an excel spreadsheet as a semi-colon separated values file?
How about doing Tab Delimited and replacing the tabs with semi-colons?
In excel: File -> Save As -> in Format select "Tab Delimited Text (.txt)" then his save.
Open the file in notepad and open the replace window. Since you can't tab directly into this window, copy a tab from your document and then paste it into the Find box and put your ; into the replace box. Then replace all.
I assume this would work because it is very rare to have tabs within an excel document.
I don't think you can set output separator directly in Excel, but (assuming Windows) you could change OS list separator to ; - that's done in Regional Settings->Customize. Excel will use that setting outputing your csv files.
Use LibreOffice Calc (it's a free download, and works on all major operating systems).
To save to semi-colon separated values:
- Open your xlsx/csv file
- File -> Save As...
- Choose "Filter CSV" as the filter (should be default if your file name ends with
.csv) - Tick "Edit filter settings" and press Save
- When it asks for confirmation of the file format, press "Use Text CSV Format"
- Change the "Field delimiter" to a semi-colon (you can type anything in here).
- Press OK.
LO Calc will correctly handle commas and semi-colons in cell values.