I may be missing the point here, but doesn't gnumeric write *.xls files? I'm sure that
I've written Excel files from my Mac onto a samba share that other users have been
able to open directly into Excel 2000 on Windows with preserved formatting and
formulae etc.
The display on my Mac sometimes doesn't work and the choice of fonts that I have is
very limited (any suggestions on that score anyone?), but there is no guddling about
with text or csv files at any point.
Later,
Dr. Andy Law
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 05 September 2002 10:26
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Fink-users] [OT] Spreadsheets that *write* ".xls" files?
> (Summary)
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>
>
> On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 07:07 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Do any of you know of a (preferably fink-ized, preferably open
> > source) spreadsheet program that can *write* ".xls" files? My
> > physics professor requires us to turn in our experiment results
> > in that format, and running down to the computer labs at school
> > isn't my idea of a good time.
> >
> > AFAICT, none of siag, oleo, gnumeric, abs, and kspread write
> > actual ".xls" files. They are all compatible with Excel via CSV
> > or some other textual format.
> >
> > Sorry for the off-topic post, but I'm having a hard time finding
> > what I'm looking for elsewhere. Reply by private email if you'd
> > like; I will summarize the results to the list in a few days. Or
> > if I'm too far off topic, tell me that, too.
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions.
>
> W.R.T. submitting some sort of CSV/TSV/text file: Too many points
> on the assignments have to do with presentation. I'm not quite
> sure what that has to do with physics, though.
>
> W.R.T. OpenOffice and StarOffice: These look promising, but the
> former is only alpha (with lots of instability warnings) on Mac OS,
> the latter isn't even offered for Mac OS. I was running Debian
> Linux next to Mac OS 8 and 9 for a while, but now that Mac OS X is
> Unix, I don't bother any more.
>
> The worst part of running down to the school's computer labs is
> that all the boxes there run Windows. :-/ (My physics professor
> did leak that some of the servers are running Linux, because
> Microsoft mumbled something about charging for web servers based on
> how many pages they serve.)
>
> Thanks again. I'll play with OpenOffice; I think I keep hearing
> rumors of a stable Mac OS X / Aqua release by the end of the year
> (a stable Mac OS X / X11 version would be fine for me, too, of
> course).
>
> Regards,
> Dan
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