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Chapter 9 Importing, Exporting, and Printing 103
Correcting CSV Files
If you are having difficulty importing a CSV file, open it in a text editor and do the
following:
Put double quotation marks around field values that have embedded
commas.
For example: “10,000 Donors“
Put double quotation marks around field values with leading or trailing
spaces.
Put double quotation marks around field values that contain embedded line-
breaks.
Put double quotation marks around field values that contain double
quotation marks. Change the embedded double quotation marks into a pair
of consecutive double quotation marks.
For example: “She said ““I will be there” in her email.
Example of a comma separated (CSV) file