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title: How to automatically separate the columns in my excel export
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# How to automatically separate the columns in my excel export

## Automatically set up your excel to separate columns when downloading exports from EdApp

When you export csv files from EdApp is all the data going into one column, making it challenging to read and change?

No problem, you can follow a few easy steps below to resolve this issue.

 

**Step 1: Open a new excel file**

![](https://support.edapp.com/hubfs/Screenshot%202022-03-03%20at%2014-58-41-png.png)

 

**Step 2: Click on 'file' then click 'import'**

![](https://support.edapp.com/hubfs/Screenshot%202022-03-03%20at%2014-59-35-png.png)

 

**Step 3: Click 'csv file' and 'import'**

![](https://support.edapp.com/hubfs/Screenshot%202022-03-03%20at%2015-00-13-png.png)

 

**Step 4: Choose your file to import**

**Step 5: Choose 'delimited' and click next**

![](https://support.edapp.com/hubfs/Screenshot%202022-03-03%20at%2015-12-22-png.png)

 

**Step 6: Select 'comma' as your delimiter **

**![](https://support.edapp.com/hubfs/Screenshot%202022-03-03%20at%2015-13-49-png.png)**

 

**Step 7: Click 'Finish' and you will have your sheet show as below**

**![](https://support.edapp.com/hubfs/Screenshot%202022-03-03%20at%2015-15-50-png.png)**

 

To have this permanently opening as a delimited file, you will need to change your settings in excel.

 

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