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Libreoffice has vastly superior CSV support compared to Microsoft office. The alternatives often have different strengths and weaknesses.


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.


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.


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


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




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