They are persistent within the same session, however. The problem is that the Text to Column settings are not persistent from one session of Excel to another. Thus, if you can change the settings in the Text to Column tool, you'll also affect how the Text Import Wizard works. Notice that the heading to this approach indicates you are changing the "Text to Column" settings, and Bill specifically asked about the "Text Import Wizard." Despite what may initially seem to be a conflation of the two tools, it is important to realize that the Text Import Wizard relies upon the Text to Column tool as part of the import process. If you make a change like that above, you'll want to check those programs to make sure there are no adverse effects from the change. Remember that any changes you make in your regional settings can affect the operation of other programs in addition to Excel. And, interestingly enough, if you open a CSV file that uses commas as a delimiter, then the Text Import Wizard will default to using a comma. Excel should default to using the semicolon as a delimiter. Click OK to close the Region dialog box.Īt this point you can restart Excel and use the Text Import Wizard to import your file.Click OK to close the Customize Format dialog box.Change the List Separator setting to a semicolon.Windows displays the Customize Format dialog box. Click the "Change Date, Time, or Number Formats" option, just under the Clock and Region heading.Using the View By drop-down list (upper-right corner of the Control Panel), make sure you are viewing by Category.Windows should show you that the best match for your typing is the Control Panel app. Press the Windows key and immediately start typing "con" (without the quote marks).If you want to have Excel always recognize the semicolon as a delimiter, then you can make a change in the regional settings used by Windows. There are several different ways you could approach this issue, as described in the following sections. Bill has to uncheck Tab and check Semicolon each time he imports, so he is wondering if there is a way to change the default delimiter character. When he imports it into Excel using the Text Import Wizard, the default delimiter is a tab character.
Bill's solar inverter saves a daily file in which the fields are delimited by a semicolon ( ).
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