What This Tool Fixes
BOM marker added by Excel on Windows
Windows-1252 encoding (instead of UTF-8)
CRLF line endings → LF normalization
Broken currency and special characters (€, £, °)
Trailing commas on every row
Metadata rows added by Excel at export
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does my Excel CSV export look broken?
Excel's CSV export frequently adds a BOM marker, uses Windows-1252 encoding instead of UTF-8, and adds CRLF line endings. These cause issues in Python, Google Sheets, and most databases. Structra fixes all of them.
How do I fix a CSV file exported from Excel?
Download the CSV from Excel, then upload it to Structra. We detect and fix all Excel-specific issues — BOM, encoding, CRLF, and special characters — and give you a clean UTF-8 file.