It's interesting that LibreOffice can successfully tell that a file is comma separated, while Office (at least up to 2007) cannot (always thinks they are tab separated).
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- Victor Ganata
I don't think Office even tries to look at the content for several different "text" type formats. Annoying, since at least for myself, I'm far more likely to being using a comma or some other delimiter.
- Jennifer Dittrich
LO always asks me about which delimiter is used and defaults to the setting of the last file I opened. Unfortunately it seems to have trouble with recognizing dates, but I can fix that in the dialogue box as it's opening the file.
- John (bird whisperer)
Heh, yeah, John, that is the behavior that I'm experiencing, so perhaps it's not a factor of LibreOffice being smarter, but just having better overall UI design.
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