TSV
Tab-Separated Values
- Best for
- Copying tables between programs, scientific data.
- Limits
- Less well known than CSV to some services.
- Type
- plain-text table
- Multiple sheets
- no
- Separator
- tab
- Extensions
- .tsv .tab
- MIME type
text/tab-separated-values
Spreadsheets
The TSV format
Like CSV but with a tab instead of the comma, so numbers with decimal commas aren’t ambiguous. Pasted into Excel, it spreads across the columns automatically.
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Questions about the TSV format
How do I open a TSV file?
Usually a double click is enough: operating systems and the most common programs recognise it. If the program or website you use won’t accept it, you can convert it here to a more common format, for example XLSX.
What extension do TSV files have?
.tsv, .tab. The MIME type is text/tab-separated-values.
Does converting a TSV lose quality?
The content is preserved; layout and style details may change between different formats.