# The spreadsheet view

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/the-spreadsheet-view/3186
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [December 13, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/the-spreadsheet-view/3186 "2019-12-13T18:59:49Z")
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### Author: ![Sajjad\_Haider](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/sajjad_haider/32/2598_2.png) [@Sajjad\_Haider](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Sajjad_Haider)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/the-spreadsheet-view/3186/1 "2019-12-13T18:59:50Z")

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Hi,

My problem is that when I export the ‘spreadsheet view’ file from paraview, I notice that the file opened in excel is different from the file seen in paraview. This is very confusing to me. How can I get the column headings along with the file, so that I know, which column standa for which variable.

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### Author: ![wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/8e8cbc/32.png) [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2019, 8:12pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/the-spreadsheet-view/3186/2 "2019-12-13T20:12:07Z")

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Welcome to ParaView and our discourse community, Sajjad!

With regards to spreadsheet views writing .csv files, and File/ Save Data/ csv files, a great deal of work had been done post 5.7.0. Try pulling a nightly build from Kitware? Also, I can’t remember what features are advanced - be sure to see the advanced dialog for .csv files. I.e., click in the little gear top right of the .csv write dialog.