csv is not good for formatting or table headings and the like.. The data is about 8gig of debt collection data.. and without headings it is gibberish..
whats why I was hoping there was a format that allowed just basic formatting.. rgds Franki -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Praedor Atrebates Sent: Wednesday, 2 April 2003 12:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 April 2003 10:58 am, Jack Coates wrote: > On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 07:51, Frankie wrote: > > thats great.... > > > > do u have a suggestion for me as to a spreadsheet format ??? > > .sxw if you must be free, and encourage people to use OpenOffice on all > platforms, or .xls if you want to get to practical working state So what IS wrong with *.csv? You can format it so that it is compatible with windoze or Mac or linux/unix. It is a simple text file and is importable readable by virtually anything (as Anna stated). I too have used .xls, but it depends on my audience/target. For the broad, general sense such that ANYONE could use your file regardless, I would think .csv would work. If you know your target will use excel, then by all means use .xls. If I want to analyze my data, I save it as .csv and then can import it as a data file for grace or similar app. If it is merely a basic spreadsheet, it almost doesn't matter. My problem here is that I jumped in at a latter stage of the discussion and haven't really seen the previous messages beyond the last 3 or 4. - -- Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. -- Chapman Cohen Fingerprint: D170 2A02 B426 6AA0 5E68 3EDC 68AA FDB0 961E 4F18 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ibk7aKr9sJYeTxgRAhSNAJ0WIa7eVbpSPF/R2u+AxAPOVUt+ggCdGx4r eApi51ZVkD0g/RdW2fJL4ds= =TYXi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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