Well, sure there are lots of tools for us power users. I was talking about muggles; corporate drones who can't install software on their machines, or folks rightfully intimidated by all the tales of malware out there who avoid installing stuff in general. Why isn't excel an adequate CSV editor, other than the stupid parsing, as Peter points out? Alan said, "Why would anyone sane edit CSV files in Excel anyway" and well, CSVs are like nails, and Excel like a hammer.
Although, of course, I'd use LibreOffice Calc :) On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Dave Crozier <[email protected]> wrote: > Take a look at CSVED I use it all the time and it is free... and portable if > you want that version. > > http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1101 > > Dave > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Cushing > Sent: 14 September 2015 16:54 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NF] Why Windows 10 Sucks.. > > > On 14/09/2015 16:41, Ted Roche wrote: >> What would you have people use? Word? >> >> Excel's pretty smart about parsing CSV or delimited files, it makes >> neat columns, it lets people highlight, color or style items they have >> questions about, do quick and dirty calculations on the results,... >> for most people, in my experience, Excel is the go-to program for >> editing tabular data. What would you use? Notepad? Access? >> > Just had a recent "experience" with excel editing CSV files with German > addresses in. German postcodes are all 5 digits so excel updates the column > to numeric but some valid postcodes start with 0, which it then ignores. > These entries then failed the upload to the courier website. > For editing CSV it is notepad for me all the way. No fancy formatting, just > text editing. > > Peter > > > > > > This communication is intended for the person or organisation to whom it is > addressed. The contents are confidential and may be protected in law. > Unauthorised use, copying or disclosure of any of it may be unlawful. If you > have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by > telephone or email. > > www.whisperingsmith.com > > Whispering Smith Ltd Head Office:61 Great Ducie Street, Manchester M3 1RR. > Tel:0161 831 3700 > Fax:0161 831 3715 > > London Office:17-19 Foley Street, London W1W 6DW Tel:0207 299 7960 > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4tQciA4M4=6=0VCY+n=d4vnqhchuwwdpyfuyqpdrbu...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
