[TriLUG] Silly file format conversion

Jeremy Portzer jeremyp at pobox.com
Thu Nov 14 15:38:45 EST 2002


On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 13:35, Chris Knowles wrote:
> Thanks...
> 
> Didn't think to have it be *.csv
> 
> Unfortunately, some of the people this is being sent to get all wonky
> when they get hit by that import screen, so nicest would be a way to
> scriptably create an Excel spreadsheet, but at least this is a step.

But the point is, when you name it *.csv -- there is no import screen. 
It just opens the file directly, as if it were a native spreadsheet.

Now, if the user tries to save stuff that isn't applicable to *.csv,
Excel will pop up messages suggesting you save in XLS format instead of
CSV.  But otherwise there are no special messages.

--Jeremy




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