Spreadshi^Heet software (was: Re: """Standard""" software)

Nuno Silva <[email protected]>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.vintage,comp.os.linux.misc
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 2026-06-28, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
[...]
>
> For me, the biggest issue with Excel opening CSV is because it assumes
> things and changes the document based of those fucking assumptions. And
> once it's change, you can't do anything about it and you have to manage
> your CSV file before opening it with Excel.
[...]
> Some other articles spoke about Excel, I don't know about OpenOffice or
> OnlyOffice. But what I know is that OpenOffice and OnlyOffice let me
> chose the field separator and the encoding before doing anything. So if
> everything is messed up, it's my fault and start again doing the right
> choices.

Yeah, my thought while I was reading your post was "wait, Excel doesn't
prompt for this"? I'm quite used to see the comprehensive CSV import
dialog in OOo/LibO, Excel doesn't do something comparable!?

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Nuno Silva
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