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# 8  
Old 06-09-2010
Hi Gini,

I think I wasn't clear. I tried doing that but the problem that I'm still facing is that this solution produces output as follows:

name, description, status

Therefore it is not a problem for most rows but I still have about over 120 rows where the description is a long sentence with commas in between.

Hence when the output in spreadsheet is separated into columns using comma as the separator to direct them into columns, the descriptions with commas get separated as well.

Else this would be great if the descriptions do not contain commas in between. I'm thinking probably getting it sorted that was in the script itself would not cause this problem in the output.

---------- Post updated at 11:41 PM ---------- Previous update was at 11:33 PM ----------

problem solved. thanks everyone

---------- Post updated at 11:41 PM ---------- Previous update was at 11:41 PM ----------

problem solved. thanks everyone
# 9  
Old 06-09-2010
thts cool.....
would like to hear from u, whether you sticked to making changes at script level, or you tweaked around with excel ...?
# 10  
Old 06-09-2010
I guess a little changes in the code by replacing "," with some other special character and a bit of tweak in Excel as well is needed to get this done. Smilie
# 11  
Old 06-09-2010
yeap Smilie
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