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Yep. Opening a CSV file in excel:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/215591

What a nightmare. Do they not realize how many DB tables start with 'ID'? And CSV is too common a format to just completely ignore. It's not always up to us.



Applies To: - Microsoft Excel 2004 for Mac - Microsoft Excel 2001 for Mac - Microsoft Excel X for Mac

Sure, it sucks that it was there at all, but the most recent mentioned is a 9 year Mac version of the software (which is written by a different team than does the Windows Office anyways).


I believe I ran into the same problem about a year ago using Office 2010 (on Windows).


Yes! This ridiculous bug is still out there and is why I never use 'ID' when designing my schemas. Seriously, why can't reserved words be designed to be so uncommon, you'll never have a conflict? If I see another 'klass' object in Python or email broken because someone started a sentence with 'From' I'm going to cry.


I definitely had this issue with Office 2007 during my internship a few years ago.




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