Ravi Have tried a few times now but I cannot send the code successfully to you. It was originally in a .zip archive that was rejected, so I unzipped it and attached just the .java code file only to be told that was too large. So, I have uploaded the file to Rapidshare so that you can download it if you wish; just follow this link
http://rapidshare.de/files/26967348/Excel_OLE.zip and you can use the free option beacuse the file is so small. Once you have the arcive, unzip it into a separate folder and then red the 'read-me.rtf' file. Must admit that VB would be my preferred option. If I remember correctly, there are OLE controls available in Visual Studio and it would be easy to use one of these to execute the correct VBA code to automate the file copies. Hope this helps. ravi shankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, I am having the following requirement. 1.We are having excel 95 sheets in database in BLOB column. 2.I need to read those files and store it back into excel 97 format so that we can use POI. So what I am looking for is.. to use some third party APIs through which I can read the files from database and while saving the APIs should provide me the option to save it back in 97 format. That is what I am looking for. Yesterday "Karl" has pointed to me OOo as one of the alternatives,which can be used to accomplish this. Anthony,If you can share the code which you are talking of then it will be well and good. Moroever I will try to use the code snippets which "Tom" has send in the mean while. If there is any way I can do this from VB5 then it will be the best option,so that we can simply run the exe and everything is done behind the progress bar. Regards Ravi -----Original Message----- From: KHZ (SAW) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 9:43 PM To: 'POI Users List' Subject: AW: AW: can we convert excel 95 to excel 97 Hi. I assumed that the product shall be cost-free (as POI is). I also thought the same. In a newer Excel version you have the possibilities of Visual Basic. So you also have database access etc and that all at the much simpler macro level. Regards, Karl-Heinz. -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- Von: Anthony Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 24. Juli 2006 18:06 An: POI Users List Betreff: Re: AW: can we convert excel 95 to excel 97 Ravi, This may sound stupid but why not use Excel to do the work for you? All you need to do is open each document using Excel 97 and then save it again making sure you select the correct version. If you only have a few sheets, then you could do this manually, otherwise, why not look at automating the process using OLE? There are classes contained within the Eclipse SWT package that make it possible to use Java to control OLE enabled applications. Of course, this means you would have to get to grips with the Excel object model as you would need to execute 'macro code' to control the process. However, you could use Excel's macro recorder to help you out - record the commands necessary to open an Excel95 file and then save it again in Excel97 format. Then use the classes within the OLE package and control the whole process using Java - opening each file and then saving in the required format all using Excel driven by Java code. Somewhere, I do have some code that illustrates how to use these classes and would be happy to e-mail it to you if you would like - and assuming I can find it all of course. But remember, Microsoft advise against controlling an OLE enabled application from third party code in this manner - Excel was not designed to be used in a non-interactive manner; it often relies on human intervention to solve problems. Tom Schindl wrote: KHZ (SAW) schrieb: > Hi Ravi. > > There are code snippets which you find in the internet and in the > documentation (some directory of the installation; as it's some time away > don't ask me about the exact name). > http://codesnippets.services.openoffice.org/Office/Office.ConvertDocuments.s nip Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi The Apache Jakarta Poi Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/ --------------------------------- See the all-new, redesigned Yahoo.com. Check it out. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi The Apache Jakarta Poi Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi The Apache Jakarta Poi Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
