I have not opened them systematically in Notepad. I looked briefly at some data using Notepad and it "might" solve the problem, but I'd rather not have to import data for each participant manually. In the past, I have tried to use the SPSS syntax file, but have not liked the fact that the Syntax truncates all variable names at 8 characters. Is there another way to systematically import the data without experiencing the comma problem from the free response items?