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		Ekaros 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a... Or something like Google sheets. Attempted very basic thing: 1. Got barcode reader and scanned some barcodes from books 2. Looked up these from online API 3. Wrote result in ISBN;Name;Year to output 4. Tried to copy result to Google Sheets 5. No import from custom CSV? (Excel has very good tooling) 6. Actually to split I had to use =SPLIT() and then copy paste results in weird way to actually be able to use first column... Is this really better? Or good enough...

squidbeak 4 months ago [–]

There's an import function in the File dropdown, with a dialog giving you control over separators. If that fails, you can paste the data, followed by Data > Split text to Columns. I work with CSVs in Google Sheets often and it's pretty reliable.

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