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You can in excel: https://superuser.com/a/407085

Also, I believe you can change the default separator in Settings somewhere.

I don't know if you noticed the date on that was 2012 and it is currently 2025; along with my comment mentioning "rabbit hole, weeks ago" but all of those settings no longer exist.

I just opened Excel M365, opened per Data -> From Text/CSV a csv file and coulds chose the delimiter.

I tested semicolon and comma and in both cases the autorecognition selected the correct delimiter but I could change it to equal sign, space, tab, user defined.

You can't change the decimal separator, but the field delimiter is possible.

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