{"id":143,"date":"2013-01-18T12:28:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T11:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benscoat.eu\/?p=143"},"modified":"2020-11-27T12:28:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T11:28:42","slug":"excel-plain-text-to-tab-delimited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benscoat.eu\/index.php\/2013\/01\/18\/excel-plain-text-to-tab-delimited\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel &#8211; Plain text to tab-delimited"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Excel on non-English systems can suffer a bad limitation, namely it&#8217;s inability to properly interpret the csv format (comma separated value). Here is a tiny AppleScript code to fix this problem. It parses plain text from the first column of any csv opened in Excel into a tab-delimited layout, likely to be saved as a native Excel file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code lang=\"applescript\" class=\"language-applescript\">tell application \"Microsoft Excel\"\n    text to columns (range \"A:A\" of active sheet of active workbook) with comma\nend tell<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excel on non-English systems can suffer a bad limitation, namely it&#8217;s inability to properly interpret the csv format (comma separated value). Here is a tiny AppleScript code to fix this problem. It parses plain text from the first column of any csv opened in Excel into a tab-delimited layout, likely to be saved as aContinue reading &rarr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benscoat.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benscoat.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benscoat.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benscoat.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benscoat.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.benscoat.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/www.benscoat.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benscoat.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benscoat.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benscoat.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}