You are probably aware, but the XLSX format used in recent versions of
Excel is significantly more accessible (it's a ZIP file containing XML
and similar data) than the older XLS format.
Also, it's fairly easy to open an XLS/XLSX file in LibreOffice and save
it as CSV, but you can also use LO in a batch mode (Windows/DOS example):
"C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\scalc.exe" --convert-to csv
"excel_file.xls"
produces "excel_file.csv" in CSV format.
-Alan
On 3/22/2022 1:29 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
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
