data fields must be separated from each other by a character called a field delimiter

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Just to review:

If it's a "text" format, rather than something like an Access .mdb format, Word expects a tabular format where

a. the first line contains a list of column headers. Let's say there are "n" column headers. The list has a "field delimiter" between each pair of headers. e.g. if it is like this

columna,columnb,columnc,columnd

then the field delimiter is the "," character and there are 4 columns

b. at the end of the line is a "record delimiter". This is typically a carriage return, line feed, or carriage return/linefeed combination

c. each subsequent line contains one record, each with the same number of values as there are column headers, using the same field delimiter and terminated by the same record delimiter.

So, e.g., you might have

columna,columnb,columnc,columnd

rec1value1,rec1value2,rec1value3,rec1value4

rec2value1,rec2value2,rec2value3,rec2value4

Word tries to guess what character you are using as a field delimiter (and in some cases, as the record delimiter), but may not be able to do so for a number of reasons.

Further, if you have a value that contains the field delimiter or record delimiter, you have to surround that value by another delimiter called the "text delimiter", which is typically a double-quote character ". If a value contains the text delimiter, you have to double up the text delimiter. So, e.g. if value rec2value3 is a multiline address such as

"Dunmergin"

2a, Field Lane

then rec2 would need to be like this:

rec2value1,rec2value2,"""Dunmergin""

2a, Field Lane",rec2value4

If your data is primarily numeric and your locale uses "." as the decimal point character, there is little problem including numbers with decimal points, e.g.

21.3,45.45,23,1.0

However, if your locale uses ",", you either have to put text delimiters around each number, or change the field delimiter.