It's an extraordinarily common feature request, so if there's a practical way to support direct import then we should consider it.
On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 11:26 AM John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote: > > So far as I'm aware, there's no way of importing directly from excel. You > would > first have to convert the excel file to something else like gnumeric or > opendocument > format. > > J' > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 10:45:32AM +0100, Friedrich Beckmann wrote: > Hi John, > > i just had a look at your automagic screenshots that you take for the > documentation. Very nice. This Nina who asked on the mailing list > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-users/2022-03/msg00031.html > <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-users/2022-03/msg00031.html> > > how to import from Excel mentioned that it would be nice to have a > description for this in the manual. I wanted to propose her that she could > make such a manual which would currently mean to write the texi code > which would require to have a build system running to see the rendered pages. > Automagic screenshots would be even more advanced. > > Did you ever propose users just to make some kind of handcrafted > tutorial or documentation, provide it in pdf under some CC license and we > would publish it on the gnu website? > > Cheers > > Fritz > >
