[libreoffice-users] Re: *.csv formats and MS DOS CSV formats

Hi :)
When saving as Csv you get various options. 

Probably the most crucial one is the "Field delimiter" drop-down which needs
to be set to
,
It should start out being the default but if you change it then the new
choice becomes the new default so you'll need to change it back.  Mostly
that is not a worry because , is the most commonly used delimited.  Tabs or
spaces are sometimes used but then it's usually called a tsv. 
csv = comma separated values
tsv = tab separated values

For "Text delimiter" the usual standard choice is ".  If it's not then that
might be seen as an error.  That might also need you to tick the box "Quote
all text cells" which is not set by default so that is possibly the most
likely problem you are having. 

Given that it's an English government bureaucracy it is highly likely that
they are asking for one thing but expecting something completely different. 
Also it is quite possible that your local version of Excel is misbehaving. 
It offers similar choices but the crucial one that goes wrong there is
"Character Set" needs to be "Unicode Utf-8", i think, at least in our
country most of the time. 

Given that the file is going to HMRC i guess you can't upload a copy to
Nabble to let us have a look but is it possible to give us a small test-file
just to see if we can spot what's going wrong?


The line-ending issue might be a red herring if you are using Windows.  It
only comes into play if you are using LibreOffice on Gnu&Linux (such as
Ubuntu/Mint, openSUSE, Mageia, Fedora, Android or whatever version).  Are
you using something other than Windows?  
Regards from
Tom :)  



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