CSV treatment difference: Office 2001 vs Office X

[Brian Williams]

Hello,

In Excel (Office 2001 / Macintosh), .csv files are recognized as a file
format that can be opened by Excel (i.e. gets listed when the parameter
is "all readable documents"). I have found that this seems not to be the
case in Excel (Office X). In order to open a .csv file in Excel X, I
must change the parameter to "all documents." This is a significant
time-loss problem for me.

Perhaps I have something not set up correctly, or MS has introduced a
problem with this latest release of Excel. I would like to know if
others have the same experience, and if anyone has identified a solution.

Thanks.

 

[J.E. McGimpsey]

Cross-posted to and Follow-up set to:
microsoft.public.mac.office.excel

Take a look at this thread from microsoft.public.mac.office.excel:

http://google.com/groups?threadm=BBA2091A.35C5%spoertner@advisort
ech.com

Couple of things going on:

1) use the Get Info dialog in the Finder to set the Application to
open for .csv files to XL.

2) .csv files generated by XL seem always to be able to be opened by
XL using "all readable documents".

3) dragging files to the application icon (either in the Finder or
the Dock) seems always to work.

4) Most file types I've tried work with "all readable documents"
once (1) is accomplished, but there are apparently some files for
which you need to go to "all documents". This is probably related to
the creator code.

5) MacXL uses OS X dialogs for File Open/File Save, etc., so I'm not
sure where the problem lies - i.e, whether it's a bug in OSX or a
bad implementation in Office v.X.

FYI: microsoft.public.excel.macintosh has been deprecated by MS - it
still exists but has much less traffic, and is not read by MS or
MVPs.