Saving a CSV file

- [Voiceover] Now that we've finished…setting up our spreadsheet, it's time to save it out…to a format that the variable importer will accept.…Right now, the file is in Excel format.…When creating my spreadsheet, I prefer to work with…either Excel or NeoOffice native format documents…because I can style the sheet using bold fonts…or add colors to the rows to make…viewing the data a bit easier.…By native format, I mean the default…file type that the program saves files with.…For Excel, that will be xls or xlsx.…

And for a NeoOffice spreadsheet it will be…ods, which stands for open document spreadsheet,…but unfortunately, the variable importer…won't accept either of these formats,…so I'll have to save the file as something else.…The file types we can use are csv,…which stands for comma separated value, or we can…also save as a txt text file with tab delimited data.…If you remember our video on dealing…with graph data in the spreadsheet,…this is a very similar procedure.…In Excel, I'll just do a Save As,…and in the Format menu at the bottom of the window,…