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CSV is Comma Separated Variable. It is a format used for files to enable them to be read by other applications. For Excel, what it will do is to save the spreadsheet as a text document with the values in each individual cell on a row separated by commas. This can then be read by things like a database which will put each value into a different field. Excel can also read CSV files and it will put values into different cells based on where it finds the commas. Say you had a CSV file that had the following content:

January, February, March

10, 30, 50

When Excel opens it, it would put the January into A1, February into B1, March into C1, 10 in A2, 30 into B2 and the 50 into C2. Had that been the layout of values in cells in a spreadsheet and it was saved in CSV format, then it would be stored in a text file in the format above.

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