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You should use Power Query for this usage, something like Get Data, From File, yada yada


I should double click on the file and it open correctly, like LibreOffice does when I set it as the default for this file type.


The problem is that Excel let you open a file with a random format. Same for LO, CSV data is usually so dirty that you shouldn't manage them without an proper loading process.


…but Excel already does it without a proper loading process and just breaks the files. LibreOffice figured this out. Just have a small modal that pops up when you open with sane defaults. This works the vast majority of the time.




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