June 28, 2007
How many hours do MSFT marketing people work to develop confusing dialogs like this?
Excel dialog displayed every time I try to save a Comma Separated Values (CSV) file without introducing MSFT-incompatible formatting:
your file.csv may contain features that are not compatible with CSV (Comma delimited). Do you want to keep the workbook in this format?
Then the helpful additional instructions:
1) To keep this format, which leaves out any incompatible features, click Yes.
2) To preserve the features, click No. Then save a copy in the latest Excel format.
3) To see what might be lost, click Help.
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Answer: CLICK YES to stop Excel from rescuing me from "incompatible" features and saving my perfectly fine CSV file from a formatting that's truly unusable with other software!
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