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Re:Ask HN: report system, Excel or HTML? by michael_dorfman on Saturday December 19, 2009 @06:37AM (#1004697)
A nice hack: if you give them comma delimited, but name the file ".xls", Excel will silently import it. and they'll never know the difference.
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Re:Ask HN: report system, Excel or HTML? by nfnaaron on Saturday December 19, 2009 @09:57AM (#1004801)
Years ago I submitted a resume to an HR dept. It was plain text, with a .txt extension.

They said "we only accept Word files for resumes."

So I changed the .txt extension to .doc and resubmitted it.

I got the job.

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