Kai Ponte wrote: > On Tuesday 11 December 2007 05:05, Zhang Weiwu wrote: >> Dear all, this is OT but I am not sure where to ask about it: >> >> Usually when we work on web applications and offer user some >> spreadsheets for downloading, my primary choice is CSV format. This is >> because both Excel and OpenOffice users can open it. Now we need to >> generate spreadsheet from the web application that has merged cells in it. >> >> This time CSV format doesn't work, it cannot represent merged cells. >> >> I prefer not to create Excel formats because I don't wish to encourage >> use of Excel format. I cannot use ODF because no one can open it (people >> use things like Excel 2003). PDF also doesn't work because we need to >> allow users to do some calculation based on table sell data. Is there >> another format I can offer? > > Never treid this but I'd heard good things... > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/odf-converter > > ...in this manner your customers can open ODF files from within MS Office. > I'll give it a shot today when I go to work to see what it does in Office > 2003.
There are also those described here (note the Sun one): <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_software#Third_party_support:_Four_OpenOffice_plug-ins_for_Microsoft_Office> You could also point them to the OOo download page :) Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
