what is comma deliniated

[mtrend]

Can someone please explain, in laymen's terms, what comma deliniated is?

 

[Anne Troy]

Might look like this:

Name,Address,City
Anne Troy,34 South 3rd Street,Quakertown
M. Trend,123 Happy Street,Philadelphia
Mickey Mouse,16 Pluto Lane,Orlando

But, when you open a CSV (which defaults to Excel as the application of
choice on most machines that HAVE Excel), each comma tells it where a new
"column" begins. So this would create a 3-column Excel file, with data in
columns A, B, and C.
************
Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[BekkiM]

It's a file (like a document) that doesn't have any formatting information
(like bold, or underline) or formulas (like =A1+B1)--just text. If you
opened a CSV (comma separated values) file in Word, you'd see:

Albert,14569,1234,3031234567,Green
Jennifer,8978,,8001234567,Purple

If you open the file in Excel, it separates each comma-separted value into a
separate column (if you run the "Import Text File" wizard):

A B C D E
1 Albert 14569 1234 3031234567 Green
2 Jennifer 8978 8001234567 Purple

A comma-delimited file is just a text file that can be read by lots of
different programs.

 

[George Nicholson]

c'mon, everyone knows Mickey lives in Toontown.