[thelist] Other-than-XLS-format to use for Excel-Worksbooks ?

Jon Molesa rjmolesa at consoltec.net
Fri Nov 23 07:44:25 CST 2007


If you're using PHP I reccommmend the PEAR package Excel_Writer.

*On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 02:22:51PM +0100 Stefan Schwarzer <st.schwarzer at geois.de> wrote:

> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:22:51 +0100
> From: Stefan Schwarzer <st.schwarzer at geois.de>
> Subject: [thelist] Other-than-XLS-format to use for Excel-Worksbooks ?
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> Hi there,
> 
> I am trying to offer alternative download formats in our data portal.  
> CSV is ok for a single sheet.
> 
> But it seems to be quite difficult if it gets to workbooks -  
> including multiple sheets, and if possible comments. One can use the  
> Excel-XML, but still it seems that it is mainly Excel - and not  
> NeoOffice, OpenOffice etc. - which is able to read that. And it is  
> only supported from version 2003.
> 
> HTML isn't really a solution, as it seems that one can't import it  
> later into any other Office package.
> 
> OpenDocument ? Didn't really find much (understandable)  
> documentation; and the ODF Excel or others store, is crypted.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas or experiences to share? Thanks for any  
> hints!
> 
> Stef
> 
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