I'm using Excel on Mac and it's always painful to have to reopen all exported CSVs in another text editor just to change the line endings from "CR" to "LF" and the delimiter from ";" to ","

Is there a way to set the preferred CSV save format permanently?

Thanks :)

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I'm not sure how to change the line endings, but the delimiter is a semicolon due to regional settings.

But I hesitate to recommend changing your regional settings.

A better recommendation would be to not use Excel. Excel is a spreadsheet program, not a database.

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There are many legitimate reasons for exporting CSV from Excel that are nothing to do with databases. Other than that I think you are spot on. – Lunatik Dec 21 '11 at 16:37
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