I think the point is not so much that its simpler, certainly not for the
programmer, but that you have so many more options. Text size, formatting,
cell widths, multiple tables on a page, pretty much anythings possible. As
for the overhead:
html
head
/head
body
Everything else goes here
Title: Message
By
definition a .csv file is plain text. That means no formatting. Best
thing you could do is to setup a macro in your spreadsheet to do the formatting
you want after loading and parsing your .csv.
HTH,
Gordon
Gordon J. GlorfieldSr. Systems
AnalystMAMSI301-360-8839
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 2:31 PM
To: U2 Users Discussion List
Subject: Re: Format Text in Output Data File
Open your spreadsheet program and then do a few cells with the
attributes you want, save them as HTML/XML and then open the
document with a text editor and see what the formatting
