Liviu,

on 2.0 RC3 on 10.6.7 I can't see the OOo or Excell formats offered unter
External Material.

Please advise.

greetings, el

On 5/4/11 10:18 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Andrew Parsloe <apars...@clear.net.nz> wrote:
>> The current lack of even a basic 'active' table in LyX, where you can sum a
>> column of figures for instance,
>>
> This is not accurate. In 2.0 you can:
> File > Import > Table (CSV)
> File > Import > xls
> File > Import > Gnumeric
> Insert > File > External > Gnumeric (supports Excel, OOo, Gnumeric)
> 
> The Gnumeric external material allows you to have and maintain a
> spreadsheet in Excel, OOo, Gnumeric. This means that whatever
> modifications you introduce in the spreadsheet file, they will be
> visible upon the next compilation of your LyX document. Pretty nifty,
> actually. :)
> 
> A more advanced way to do something similar is to use R via the Sweave
> module. But this is not for the faint hearted.
> 
> Cheers
> Liviu
> 

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