CSV Converter

Applications specialized in working with an abundance of text details or technical info mostly come with a built-in option to generate CSV reports. These are pretty popular, with several types of separators besides comma. Dedicated to these file types, CSV Converter can help you fix content by placing values between quotation marks.

You’re free to take the application for a spin as soon as it’s launched. It’s also a good idea to launch it with administrator privileges so it can load files from different locations. To have it quickly brought up when needed you can assign a hotkey command to it’s shortcut from the system Properties panel.

The visual design consists of a compact window fitted with a short description of the process, as well as the trigger button for the operation. Unfortunately, dropping files over the main window to get them ready has no effect. What’s more, only one file can be processed at a time, which has a considerable impact on overall practicality.

Needless to say that you can only open files under the CSV format. On the bright side, the delimiter in use is not changed. What the application does is read values between commas, or other separators and places them between quotation marks. This can usually be a cause of compatibility issues when trying to load existing CSV files in particular programs.

Output is always delivered in the same folder from which you grabbed the source. It’s not automatically brought up, so you sooner or later need to navigate there. Sadly, the application doesn’t come with an option to edit content, or at least change the delimiter used.

In conclusion, CSV Converter might be able to help you solve issues when trying to open existing CSV files with applications you use in your projects. The overall process is straightforward, and doesn’t take a lot of time from start to end. However, it’s a little rough around the edges, mostly because it lacks batch processing support.