# CSV file not opening correctly

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/csv-file-not-opening-correctly/59354>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [December 10, 2022, 9:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/csv-file-not-opening-correctly/59354 "2022-12-10T21:20:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![xpac5896a](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/85f322/32.png) [@xpac5896a](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/xpac5896a)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 9:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/csv-file-not-opening-correctly/59354/1 "2022-12-10T21:20:27Z")

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Normally when you open a CSV file for Excel, a box will open and you can format the file the way you want for the Excel columns. At the present time that doesn't happen, if you click on the file it just opens in an unusable format, everything on one line.Perhaps I've missed an update in regards to using CSV. I am using Ver. 3.18 of MP3Tag.

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**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 9:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/csv-file-not-opening-correctly/59354/2 "2022-12-10T21:24:00Z")

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MP3tag opens the application that is associated to a certain file type.  
So you could either change that association or check what has happened on the target program side.  
(Which, all in all has only little to do with MP3tag but is a question of your system setup)

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**Author:** ![xpac5896a](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/x/85f322/32.png) [@xpac5896a](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/xpac5896a)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 9:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/csv-file-not-opening-correctly/59354/3 "2022-12-10T21:45:00Z")

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OK, my mistake. What I'm used to is the File Formatting box opening by itself now you have to click on the file in Excel to open it. Fixed the problem.

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**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 9:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/csv-file-not-opening-correctly/59354/4 "2022-12-10T21:48:51Z")

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What have you changed since this thread?

> [@No Dialog box for exporting as CSV](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/no-dialog-box-for-exporting-as-csv/54521):
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> I don't know if Windows 10 discarded the dialog box for exporting a file as a CSV but there used to be. Now, all it does is export the file in a way that is unuseful. You use to be able to set how the file was supposed to be exported and when you click on EDIT you can't edit the CSV file. I've been using MP3TAG for years and this is the first time I've come across this.

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2023, 9:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/csv-file-not-opening-correctly/59354/5 "2023-01-09T21:49:48Z")

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