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by conductr 453 days ago
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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>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