Creating Simple Format CSV files

To import your Excel glossaries into WorldServer, you usually need to export them in a .csv format. This creates a Simple Format CSV file that you can import in the Delimited File: Simple Format mode. However, if your Excel glossaries are in a language that the Latin-1 character set cannot represent, you need to export the file in a Unicode format.

Procedure

  1. Open the Excel file that contains your glossary.
  2. In Excel, select New > Save As.
  3. Choose where you want to save your new file, and then do one of the following:
    • If you want to export the file as a CSV file, in the Save as type list, select CSV (Comma delimited) (*.csv).
    • If you want to export the file in Unicode, in the Save as type list, select Unicode Text (*.txt).
  4. Select Save.

What to do next

You can now import the file into WorldServer.