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by imtringued 287 days ago
You are creating a new spreadsheet that you can save as an xlsx. What you are looking at is not the CSV file itself.
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This is a distinction that does not matter to most non-technical people.
Well I mean unless you're inspecting it with a hex editor, you're not looking at the csv file itself. Even then, I suppose you could say that's not even the file itself. An electron microscope perhaps? But then you've got the whole Heisenberg issue, so there's that.
That's not true either, try it yourself with a simple csv file, open it, add a row and save - you'll see the original update

(there are some limitations)

You are missing the point so hard its hilarious.