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

Eduardo Kienetz eduardok at gmail.com
Fri Nov 23 07:56:46 CST 2007


On Nov 23, 2007 11:54 AM, David Dorward <david at dorward.me.uk> wrote:
> This isn't something I'd suggest for any file you plan to distribute.
> You're bound to run into a situation where an application that knows
> how to handle Excel data tries to open it, finds HTML, tries to treat
> it like Excel data, fails and gives up.

Excel allows you to save as HTML and, obviously, read/open that same
'data'. So as long as you keep it in the format excel generates it
works fine.

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Eduardo Bacchi Kienetz
LPI Certified - Level 2
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