Busy — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 09:12:40 +0000

Thanks guys

Everyday is a learning day

andy206uk — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 08:31:30 +0000

Yup... CSV contains absolutly nothing but data. Any macro's that were hidden would come into excell as plain text in a cell. CSV's are completly safe. (well... as safe as .txt files).

OtterBob — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 23:16:46 +0000

Busy wrote: So if it can be formatted by commas, can triggers or macro codes etc be hidden in them.
maybe the sleep in notepad but reawake in excell.

No, it's a plain-text format. All a .csv file contains is data. It's perfectly safe.

Busy — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 21:57:03 +0000

A .csv file can be opened anywhere, even excell, this is why I ask because the file is created in excell, which can include macros etc and has formatting, then saved as .csv but when the file is reopened in excell it still retains the formatting (tabs).

So if it can be formatted by commas, can triggers or macro codes etc be hidden in them.
maybe the sleep in notepad but reawake in excell.

I don't know, I have no idea, hense the reason I asked

adam_1 — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 12:07:38 +0000

I have saved CSV and when opened in notepad that are just Comma Seperated Values (or was it Variables).

There is no formatting and no code.

Busy — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 09:30:35 +0000

Thanks for the replies guys

From the research I've done, there is no black and white answer whether it is just a plain old text file or has methods of hiding objects.
From lack of information, I gather it is just a plain old text file.

openmind — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 08:07:16 +0000

I cannot see how a macro could become embedded ito a csv as, you rightly stated, it's just a text file with values seperated by commas

compwolf — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 06:15:17 +0000

To the best of my knowledge it is just a text file that uses commas to indicate the columns ... I have not researched this very well so I may be wrong ...