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Downloadable History Log
Viewing Your Downloaded Log
Viewing Your Downloaded Log
As detailed in the previous section, your Downloadable History Log can be saved and viewed
in any of the following file formats:
z Comma-separated value (CSV) plain text file for use with spreadsheet programs
z Tab-delimited plain text file
z Intuit (Quicken/QuickBooks) file
For automated file processing and reconciliation applications, PayPal recommends you use
comma-delimited or tab-delimited formats. Comma-delimited and tab-delimited files may
contain fields with punctuation and spaces.
Those fields will be automatically double-quoted (") in the file output.
When viewing comma-delimited or tab-delimited file formats in spreadsheet applications (like
Excel), the log files display field column headers across the first row, and data values for
individual transactions in subsequent rows. Each row is separated by a carriage return.