[ale] importing CSV too much to handle?

Master Wizard mainwizard at vei.net
Thu Jan 30 21:46:15 EST 2003


.CSV -Comma Separated Values. ie table data, which in windows is excel.
Ed.

Geoffrey wrote:

> Tzadik Vanderhoof wrote:
> 
>>
>>> Am I missing something?  When I click on a .CSV file, it 
>>> automatically opens
>>> in Excel.  What's hard to handle about that?  Furthermore, if I'm 
>>> already in
>>> Excel and I open a .CSV file, the same thing happens.  It's pretty much
>>> indistinquishable from an .XLS file in the way it acts.
>>
> 
> I'm not sure I understand.  Are you indicating that in Windows when you 
> select a file with a .csv ending it automagically opens in excel?
> 
> I personally don't find that comforting.  I prefer to be asked what I 
> would like to open a file in.  Of course this is a matter of 
> configuration in both OS's.
> 
> For me, Microsoft tools all to often make decisions for me that are not 
> the right answer.
> 



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