TabEditor 1.0

You can find the download link at the bottom of this page.

TabEditor is a free program for managing tables from CSV files.

With TabEditor, you can read CSV files, merge files (with the same number of columns), convert, sort and save them: either the entire file or only the selected rows.
You can choose from the following save formats:

XML	for Excel,
HTML	for browsers,
CSV / TSV	for other programs – the latter optionally with or without a 'Byte Order Mark' (BOM).

The CSV Format

CSV stands for 'character-separated values'. In a CSV file, table rows and columns (i.e., the cells in each table row) are delimited by 8-bit characters. Table rows are typically separated by line or paragraph breaks used in word processing: 'Line Feed' and/or 'Carriage Return'.
Separating cells within a row typically involves semicolons, commas, or tabs. Tab-based tables often have the filename extension TSV ('tab-separated values'). However, the term CSV also applies to tab-based tables.

If one of the aforementioned delimiters appears in the cell content, it is enclosed in quotation marks (").
Text containing the string 'quotation mark + separator' cannot be saved in the relevant CSV format.

Application

This file format is only suitable for simple tables. It is offered by Google, for example, for exporting contacts (as of December 2025).

My reason for creating this small program was the refusal of the office giant Excel 2019 to read a CSV file in UTF-8 format (without a byte order mark) as a table. I had over 60 CSV tables that I wanted to merge. The TabEditor presented here now accomplishes this – and more.

The 'TabEditor' should automatically detect UTF-8 and UTF-16 character encoding. Texts created with a so-called code page, however, cannot be automatically identified and may need to be converted by the user. Files with different character encodings can be merged in the TabEditor and saved in UTF-8 format.

Further information and an overview of my programs can be found on my 'App-Sitemap'.

Download links

TabEditor for Windows (zip)

The minimum system requirement is Windows 'Vista'.
The current version has been tested on Windows 7 and 10.

For the current version there is no setup program. If you have administrator rights, you can unzip the download and save it in the desired program directory. The link to the start menu must be done manually. Since no registry entry is made, you can simply delete the program and the link (including in the start menu) if you no longer want to use TabEditor.
A help file is part of the zip program package.
TabEditor.exe is a 32-bit program.

Legal Notice

For the disclaimer, the copyright and other conditions of use the information given in the 'Legal Notice' apply (see link below!)

The texts were translated from German. Please excuse mistakes in the translation if necessary.