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Perfect! I knew it had to be a setting somewhere, but I was obviously looking in the wrong place.

We have a customer who outputs a tab-delimited file and saves the extension .xls to the end so they can open it in excel. When I'm out on the floor and I want to view these files, I have to use notepad because Excel isn't installed on these PCs (and won't be). When I right-click on the file and ...

My key concerns with using a spreadsheet application: 1. Excel locks the file out, so the test system cannot write to the file when openned 2. Excel is limited to somewhere in the range of 64K cells. The test records are flat files that often exceed this 3. The automatic update feature of Textpad ...

.. or tab delimited, fixed space, etc. Just to be able to view a CSV in a tabular format with limited control would be a great help for me. I write out test record data to a csv and the auto-update feature of the program is a real help in watching this real-time.