Opening CSV in Excel using VBA causes data to appear in two columns instead of one

Question

I created VBA code in Excel 2007/2010 to import data from a CSV file. Unfortunately, when I open the file programmatically, the data is split into two columns (A and B) for

Answer 1

I know two possible workarounds:

1) Change the extension from .csv to for example .xxx and open it like this:

Workbooks.OpenText fileName:="file.xxx", _
Origin:=xlMSDOS, StartRow:=1, DataType:=xlDelimited, TextQualifier:=1, _
ConsecutiveDelimiter:=False, Tab:=False, Semicolon:=True, _
Comma:=False, Space:=False, Other:=False, OtherChar:="", _
TrailingMinusNumbers:=True, Local:=True

If you use .csv or .xls, then the excel overrides the settings by it's default values from the OS.

2) In Windows 10, change your locale setting from English - United States to English - United Kingdom. It's strange that it helps, it doesn't matter what the delimiter setting in advanced date/time is. In Windows 7 I think the delimiter setting worked.