Decent editor for CSV files

From	Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Decent editor for CSV files
Date	2015-09-06 03:18 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
Message-ID	<slrnmunc6l.213c.g.kreme@amelia.local> (permalink)

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I have a user who does not have Office and has a database of addresses
stored as a CSV file. She needs to edit this file on occasions, but she
needs something that treats the CSV file as a spreadsheet or table.

Numbers works, but to save the file she has to do a File > Export > CSV
and then overwrite the file in place.

This scares her every time, which leads her to call me.

She only edits the file once or twice a year, so she doesn't remember
from session to session.

So, is there a simple basic (and preferably free or super cheap)
application out there that will treat lines in a CSV as a single unit
and easily let her add and remove records?

A text editor is right out, she'd have to count commas.

(the file is a DB for the Brother app "P Touch" which she uses to print
out mailing labels for Christmas cards. It does not read Numbers files)

-- 
The night is always old. He'd walked too often down dark streets in the
secret hours and felt the night stretching away, and known in his blood
that while days and kings and empires come and go, the night is always
the same age, always aeons deep. Terrors unfolded in the velvet shadows
and while the nature of the talons may change, the nature of the beast
does not. --Jingo

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Decent editor for CSV files Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-06 03:18 +0000
  Re: Decent editor for CSV files Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-06 04:03 +0000
    Re: Decent editor for CSV files Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-06 04:44 +0000
      Re: Decent editor for CSV files Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2015-09-06 05:15 +0000
        Re: Decent editor for CSV files dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-09-06 22:08 +1200
        Re: Decent editor for CSV files Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-06 18:17 +0000
  Re: Decent editor for CSV files Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2015-09-06 07:39 +0200
    Re: Decent editor for CSV files Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-06 18:20 +0000
  Re: Decent editor for CSV files Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2015-09-06 12:47 -0400
    Re: Decent editor for CSV files Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-06 16:56 +0000
      Re: Decent editor for CSV files Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2015-09-08 13:28 -0400
        Re: Decent editor for CSV files Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-08 21:23 +0000
          Re: Decent editor for CSV files Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2015-09-09 20:27 -0400
            Re: Decent editor for CSV files Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-10 05:54 +0000
  Re: Decent editor for CSV files Louis Wu <louiswu@ringworld.net> - 2015-09-06 17:11 -0700
    Re: Decent editor for CSV files Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-07 01:28 +0000
      Re: Decent editor for CSV files Louis Wu <louiswu@ringworld.net> - 2015-09-07 19:53 -0700
        Re: Decent editor for CSV files Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-08 07:47 +0000

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