# Exporting CSV Data to multiple tabs

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/exporting-csv-data-to-multiple-tabs/54064>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [December 13, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/exporting-csv-data-to-multiple-tabs/54064 "2021-12-13T18:08:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![nicholas.robinson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nicholas.robinson/32/22188_2.png) [@nicholas.robinson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nicholas.robinson)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/exporting-csv-data-to-multiple-tabs/54064/1 "2021-12-13T18:08:00Z")

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Exporting data to a CSV is very straightforward. But there is seemingly no stock ignition functionality to allow export to multiple tabs. Does anyone have an already working solution for exporting to a multi-tab CSV?

Thanks,

Nick

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 6:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/exporting-csv-data-to-multiple-tabs/54064/2 "2021-12-13T18:27:04Z")

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Do you mean Excel? CSV itself is a generic format, that, while commonly opened automatically by Excel, is not a multi-tab spreadsheet format. Export to Excel instead. That can generate a tab for each dataset it is given.

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**Author:** ![nicholas.robinson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nicholas.robinson/32/22188_2.png) [@nicholas.robinson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nicholas.robinson)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2021, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/exporting-csv-data-to-multiple-tabs/54064/3 "2021-12-13T18:28:55Z")

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DUH, should have seen that. Thanks!

[https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/system.dataset.exportExcel](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/system.dataset.exportExcel)

Nick