Eek, Amazon (or at least doing work for a supplier of theirs) made me use Excel 2007.

The download uses "Microsoft Download Manager" (loosely re-badged version of Headline). Which didn't seem to work with a Squid proxy, and you seemed to have to know it is was a re-badged Headline in order to delete the registry settings to update your proxy settings. The download manager perpetually hung unresponsive.

Once installed Excel 2007 trial edition quietly is greyed out till activation is completed. Having googled this up, and activated a trial edition, I discover at one point I can't see the vital bit of the screen I need to see as the Windows toolbar is in the way (despite autohide) - wtf.

In use the product was pig slow. Didn't obviously allow me to specify my data to import was in UTF-8. The only error message produced that I thought might be helpful was a decimal number of approximately ~2x10^9).

I did manage to guess the big button had replaced the "File" menu, but Amazon clearly hadn't updated that bit of their documentation, or perhaps they didn't know what to call it now!

Fortunately after getting one cycle of import/export to work, I was able to cut and paste the one extra line the spreadsheet inserts which Amazon don't document into the TSV file the web server exports, and go use a real OS with a real spreadsheet tool for the rest of my work.

Let us hope Amazon will find a better way of explaining their import formats.