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ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com> writes:
> text_file = open("C:/Users/rshuell001/Desktop/excel/Text1.txt", "wb")

Remove the "b" from this line. This is causing it to omit the
platform-specific translation of "\n", which means some Windows
applications will not recognize the line endings.