One way is to change a windows setting.
In win98:
windows start button|settings|control panel|regional settings applet
Number tab|list separator (change to tilde)
Apply and do File|save as|CSV (comma separated)
Remember to change it back when you're done!
Or maybe you could write your own macro to do exactly what you want:
Here are three sites that you could steal some code from:
Earl Kiosterud's Text Write program:
www.smokeylake.com/excel
(or directly: http://www.smokeylake.com/excel/Text%20Write%20Program.htm)
Chip Pearson's:
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/imptext.htm
J.E. McGimpsey's:
http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/textfiles.html
(You may be happy with Earl's version--right out of the box!)

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Dave,
I changed that page to www.smokeylake.com/excel/Text_write_program.htm a
while back. The %20 was messy.

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Dave Peterson - 30 Sep 2004 03:24 GMT
Off to update my links...
Thanks,
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Dave Peterson - 30 Sep 2004 03:31 GMT
It looks like that URL is case sensitive.
http://www.smokeylake.com/excel/Text_write_program.htm
worked, but
http://www.smokeylake.com/excel/Text_Write_program.htm
and
http://www.smokeylake.com/excel/Text_write_Program.htm
didn't
(Is that something you can change?)
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Earl Kiosterud - 30 Sep 2004 04:23 GMT
Dave,
Thanks. Sheesh. I know better. I've changed it to text_write_program.htm.

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Dave Peterson - 30 Sep 2004 20:22 GMT
The links work with lowercase characters, but (from someone who speaks no HTML)
isn't there a way to make it case insenstive--completely?
(Ps. I've updated my links again. <vbg>)
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