Why Do My CSV Downloads Look Strange in Excel

If you have HTML in any of your mailings, you may find that CSV downloads of mailings tables look strange when you open them in Excel.

Aurea List Manager is providing the data in the correct format, but Excel is changing the formatting because it sees an <HTML> or <body> tag. Excel attempts to display the document as it thinks it should be shown, instead of leaving it in a table format. If the file is opened with a plain text editor, the file is displayed properly (though not in a table format).