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Re:The Norway Problem by imtringued on Sunday April 04, 2021 @01:22PM (#26691230)
Excel doesn't support CSV files. Anyone who believes that has never used Excel. [0] You're supposed to use spreadsheets as is. Programs that have excel export features should always directly export xlsx files.

[0] The only thing you can safely do with CSV files is to interpret every value as text cell. CSV files always require out of band negotiation on everything, including delimiters, quotation, escape characters, the data type of each column.

Re:The Norway Problem by blacktriangle on Monday April 05, 2021 @03:36PM (#26703574)
However....

Users BELIEVE Excel supports CSV file. That's the reality on the ground. Fighting against that is a losing battle.