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Re:Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-... by dragonwriter on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @12:39PM (#24699693)
> They have file extensions turned off, which is the default, so they probably don't even know what a CSV is

And if, also by default, Excel is setup with an association with CSVs, the CSV file will, in addition to not having an extension to identify it, will have an icon which identifies it with Excel.

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