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Re:A love letter to the CSV format by conductr on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @07:32PM (#43488745)
I’ve almost always found the simple way around Excel users not knowing how to safely use CSV files is to just give the file another extension: I prefer .txt or .dat

Then, the user doesn’t have Excel has the default program for opening the file and has to jump through a couple safety hoops

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Re:A love letter to the CSV format by Suppafly on Thursday March 27, 2025 @01:28PM (#43495818)
>Then, the user doesn’t have Excel has the default program for opening the file and has to jump through a couple safety hoops

Nah, they just quickly learn to rename it .csv or .xls and excel will open it

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