[freeAgent]

I’ve never had a problem working with CSVs in Excel, but I’ll take your word for it. For text operations, I frequently find myself using Notepad++ anyway.

[jeltz]

I had a colleague who did most of his work in Excel but used LibreCalc when he had to open a weird CSV and then cobtinued working in Excel.

[emeril]

I've found not to trust excel for CSV's generally unless I build them manually in excel as a concatenation

[gopher_space]

Notepad++ has no problem displaying characters like checkmarks that Excel will mangle.