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CSV guides for Mac

Practical answers to the questions people ask about CSV files, each with the limits stated plainly.

Open a large CSV file on Mac

Why big files stall in a spreadsheet, and how to open files of millions of rows without losing any.

Compare two CSV files on Mac

See which rows were added, removed or changed between two exports, and export the differences.

Decimal-comma amounts in bank CSV exports

Amounts written -1.234,50 that won’t add up, and how to total them to the cent while saving them as written.

Run SQL on a CSV file on Mac

Query a CSV file directly with SQL, without importing it into a database first.

Tabulay or a spreadsheet?

What a CSV workbench does differently from a spreadsheet, and when a spreadsheet is the better tool.