diff --git a/polynum/request/views.py b/polynum/request/views.py
index 978f508..e563ff7 100644
--- a/polynum/request/views.py
+++ b/polynum/request/views.py
@@ -734,6 +734,9 @@ class CSVListRequest(ListRequest):
                     cell = cell.replace('.',',')
                 except:
                     pass
+                # try to fix newlines for excel
+                cell.replace('\r\n', '\n')
+                cell.replace('\r', '')
                 row.append(unicode(cell).encode('utf-8'))
             writer.writerow(row)
         return response