Re: [users] excel to openoffice.org calc

[Eric Wood]

What this person is talking about is DDE conversions straight to Excel/Word 
which is pretty darn cool.   This allows a server to contact a small daemon 
running on the user machine to remotely luanch Excel/Word/PowerPoint and in 
real time generate the content before their eyes.  The client program does 
the SQL call or just receives a proprietary code snippets - regardless, it 
translates this into DDE statements.  DDE statement automates most of the 
capabilities all without keyboard or mouse intervention.

The question is will OOo 2.0 support DDE or similar?  Unfortunately I don't 
see it.  But wouldn't it knock the socks off of the CEOs!

Just imagine the possibilty of your accounting system or CRM system being 
able to directly generate a personalized mail merge or customized sales 
spreadsheet or a unique slide show presentation on-the-fly with the freshest 
data possible - all without preparation.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=279721
http://www.synergetic-data.com/sdsi.cgi?p=sdoffice
-eric wood
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instead the program automatically opens a blank excel sheet and starts 
filling the data as it gets it from sql queries AT THE SAME TIME.

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