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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 editor does differently from a spreadsheet, and when a spreadsheet is the better tool.

How to open a CSV file on a Mac

Numbers, TextEdit, Excel and Tabulay: how each opens a CSV, and the limit of each.

A CSV viewer for Mac

Read, scroll, sort and filter a CSV file as written, without changing it.

Numbers and CSV on Mac

Export a Numbers table to CSV, open a CSV in Numbers, and what to do past 1,000,000 rows.

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