Separator problem after opening a exported CSV file in Excel

Dear experts,
After exporting a report to .CSV file from BEX browser, I opened this file with Excel. I found that "," is considered as separator, but not ";" which is by default the separator in CSV file exported.
For example, when i open the CSV in Notepad, i have:
"15.07.2008";"E001";"No value"
"15.07.2008";"E001";"No value, date, time"
When it is opened in Excel, I have
"15.07.2008";"E001";"No value"(Column A)
"15.07.2008";"E001";"No value(Column A) date(Column B) time"(Column C)
Is that a problem in Excel configuration? How to solve it (for example, set ; as separator)?
Thanks in advance!
Edited by: Xiaoxuan WU on Jan 23, 2008 4:00 PM

Hi,
Please try opening your .csv file in excel. I am assuming that all texts are in one column. Select this column, go to Data>Text to Columns. Set the checkbox to Delimited. Click on next. Set the delimeter to ; and the text qualifier to ". Click on next. Click on finish. Then save in another filename. Try opening this new .csv file in notepad and see if it has the format you needed.
Hope this helps,
Juice

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