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Why Excel thinks your CSV is a SYLK

Just a quick post to share a tip I discovered this morning. I was generating a CSV file and for some reason when I went to open it in Excel, I got a message saying the file’s extension was CSV, but the file format was SYLK. Clicking through a couple message boxes opened the file [...]

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by Anna Lear on June 10, 2010 • Permalink

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Posted by Anna Lear on June 10, 2010

http://annalear.ca/2010/06/10/why-excel-thinks-your-csv-is-a-sylk/

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