Microsoft Excel in Office X is a joke. You can’t round-trip your data via CSV…
Try this: open a .xls file, save it as .csv, close the original, and then open the .csv file. Assuming you have the same Microsoft experience as me, you’ll get the following error:
SYLK: file format is not valid.
Great. Thank goodness I have OpenOffice installed. It may not be the latest version, and it may have to run under X11 rather than natively in OS X, but at least it works.
Related posts: