>I thought about what you all were saying about preprocessing the file, and I looked at Nadia's string from way back again....
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>Could I do something like this:
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>>loExcel = CREATEOBJECT("Excel.Application")
>>loExcel.Workbooks.Open("theoriginalcsv.csv") && Secretly open the csv that I downloaded
>>loExcel.Workbooks.SaveAS("thenewcsvthatworks.csv",8) && Now, save it to ANOTHER csv, but with Excel
>>loExcel.Workbooks.Close(0) && Close, do not keep changes
>>loExcel.Quit
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>and then try appending??
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>My problem seems to be with the third line of code.....I think the number 8 needs to be changed to something else...

Try 39 instead and also use DisplayAlerts = .f. I haven't tried it myself, though to save as Excel, not CSV.