"It works on any tabular data source." Just on that point, Excel allows you to define the field delimiter on import of text files and handles a ton of differen

"It works on any tabular data source." Just on that point, Excel allows you to define the field delimiter on import of text files and handles a ton of different formats out of the box, so I doubt this is a point where Tad is better than Excel (though Tad does look promising as a tool to quickly check data files).