Looking for a tool for spreadsheet manipulation.

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Wed Jan 19 16:36:46 EST 2011


On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:13 PM, David Berube
<djberube at berubeconsulting.com> wrote:
> Alternatively, instead of editing the document, you could edit a CSV
> text file, tab delimited text file, or database table and then generate
> your XLS/google doc document from that - which is likely your most
> flexible approach, and still preserves your ability to have your
> preferred output format.

  It should be noted that an xls file *CAN* simply be a csv file.
Honest to god, try it.  Handles equations in the cells and everything.
 Used it many times for the quick and dirty '*.XLS Output'.  The users
never know the difference.  :-D

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-- Thomas


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