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TECHNOLOGY
Beware the Awful CSV File!
I’m kidding. CSV’s are simple. Mostly simple.
Martin Van Soeste recently updated one of his Chrome extensions that I happen to use. I love the extension; those of you who are writers at this site should take a look-see.
However, I was taken aback by one thing he said:
The previous versions of the extension allowed you to export all of your earnings to an comma-separated file. While this is nice, you do have to be a little bit tech-savvy to use this. Now you can export to excel as well!
Why was I shocked? Well, because I’ve never thought of a CSV file as being “techy” at all. I cannot think of a single spreadsheet that won’t import CSV. I import it into Apple Numbers, for example.
It’s just text formatted to make it easy to understand what belongs with what. It’s just Comma Separated Values!
Take this sentence;
Tony 74 28 Summit Avenue, Sharon 784 3847
