Comments on: iWork Numbers: How to Open Tab Delimited CSV Files

By: MS

MS — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:25:39 +0000

The csv-to-txt trick didn’t work for me.

Then I just dragged and dropped the original csv file from my desktop into a table in Numbers …. it’s magic.

By: RCBoyd

RCBoyd — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:01:39 +0000

It is not the most convenient but it works. I am using if for bank info so luckily I do not have to do it so often. Thanks for the information. Much appreciated.

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:20:32 +0000

Thanks very much for this useful tip. I’m just getting into using Numbers instead of Excel as overall I prefer it. I’m using Snow Leopard with iWorks 9 and had no problem with it. Maybe this is something that could be added to the preferences section of Numbers – The option of Commas, Tabs or Semi-Colons separation.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:04:54 +0000

Awesome tip! I thought I was going to have to dig out a copy of Excel but this little bit of info saved me easily an hour, maybe more.

By: Tom Pollard

Tom Pollard — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:35:31 +0000

Thanks! The .txt tip worked perfectly for me. It allowed me to import tab-delimited .csv files (exported from PHPlist) into Numbers ‘09 on my MacOSX 10.6.8 Macbook.

By: Bedrijf op Facebook

Bedrijf op Facebook — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:40:54 +0000

Wow! Worked perfectly. It’s important that you change it to TXT –>before

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:44:19 +0000

Brilliant advice – been trying for over two hours to resolve bring a CSV file in to Numbers from Google Keyword Tool, this works a treat! Nice one :-)

By: qo

qo — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:01:00 +0000

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By: qo

qo — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:55:00 +0000

Or, even better, write an Automator workflow for it (Automator comes with the Mac). If you buy BBEdit, it comes with many Automator plugins, including a Search and Replace plugin. Then it’s just a matter of telling Automator to open the file in BBEdit, do the several search/replace operations, and save the file.

By: qoqo

qoqo — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:44:00 +0000

Opps, sorry for cat’ing the script twice :-(