Viewing CSV files

Online Mooring has capabilities to generate export files in a CSV format.   These are generated when using the Export screen, or when clicking the Export button on any report.

This format of file can be viewed and/or imported into a number of different software packages.  The most common software for viewing this data would be in a spreadsheet package such as Microsoft Excel, or in a text editor such as Microsoft Notepad.

Viewing in a Spreadsheet (in Windows)

If your computer has not been configured, CSV files may be displayed in a text format that doesn't look very useful.  

To configure your computer to open CSV files in Microsoft Excel (or any other program), please do the following:

Viewing in a Text Editor (in Windows)


You can follow the instructions above, but pick Notepad instead of Excel as the program for viewing files.

Here's how to read this file:
- The first row contains a list of column headings for the exported data, with double quotes surrounding each column heading, and a comma in between.
- Each following row represents a different record from our database.  In each row, you will see the value for each column surrounded by double quotes, with a comma between each field.