Select ‘from a Mac, Time Machine backup, or startup disk’. On your new Mac: Under Applications, select ‘Migration Assistant’. We’ll walk you through the basics of using Migration Assistant. You will be prompted to choose where to save the file, it will be downloaded to that location, and will open in Excel on your Mac. Apple’s built-in Migration Assistant can help you transfer data from an old mac to a new one. Click on the Upload button, choose 'Files', and find your csv file on your computer or a drive you're connected to (such as Homeserver).įrom 'My Drive' in Google, find the csv file you've uploaded, right-click the file, choose 'Open with', then select 'Google Sheets'.Īs you'll see, Google Sheets preserves the special characters and displays them correctly.įrom the 'File' menu, select 'Download as', then select 'Microsoft Excel (.xlsx)'. However, in the Mac version, this setting is not there. With only clicking the ‘Save’ button on the upper left corner, your Excel file would be saved in the default location on your computer. However, if you first open the file in Google Sheets, the special characters will be preserved. The Windows version of Excel allows you to select a location for saving any Excel file. When you generate or receive a csv (comma-separated value) file that contains special characters from the UTF8 character set (é, for example), Excel for the Mac will not properly preserve the special characters. Search the Help Desk Search Converting csv files with UTF8 Data for Excel on the Mac Course Google Group Request (course email list).SenusAccess (accessible document converter).

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