Opening portal* reports in excel
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by terrible*
How to open your reports and statements in excel
We sometimes see garbled symbols when our reports are opened in programs that do not use UTF-8 by default (like excel)
Below is a guide that helps open these reports to ensure that the data retains correct currency or other symbols
- Open Excel
- Go to
Data
→Get Data
→From File
→From Text/CSV
- Select your downloaded
.csv
statement file - In the import window:
- Set File Origin to
65001: Unicode (UTF-8)
. - Confirm the delimiter is correct (usually Comma).
- Set File Origin to
- Click
Load
to open it properly