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A decades-old lesson on not inserting Excel where it doesn't belong

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Re: Excel as an intermediate step

True for XLS and XLSX files, they keep a last opened stamp in the file so as you say it changes when opened. There are ways to stop this but who bothers.

Does not apply to plain text CSV files.

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