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The Contact Form to Email that has many CSV based reports, an option to export data to CSV/Excel files. If you experience problems with the character encoding of the exported files, here is the info of how to fix it.
When importing those reports into a Excel application the character encoding may be incorrect depending of the local Excel application settings. If this happens follow these steps to correctly import the file:
Save the exported file as a csv
Open Excel
Import the data using Data–>Import External Data –> Import Data
Select the file type of “csv” and browse to your file
In the import wizard change the File_Origin to the related language character identifier
Change the Delimiter to comma if needed
Select where to import to and Finish
This way the special characters should show correctly.
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