Re: Software to read/write Excel to CD?

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On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Michael A. Peters <mpeters@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Paul M Foster wrote:
>
>> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:21:22AM +0100, Peter Ford wrote:
>>
>>  Matt Graham wrote:
>>>
>>
>
>>> But why write an Excel spreadsheet - why not save the data in something
>>> more
>>> portable like CSV that ExCel and read and write to once you are back at
>>> base?
>>>
>>>
>> CSV doesn't export *formulas*, just the visible numbers.
>>
>
> gnumeric handles everything excel that I have ever needed, and is FOSS.
> I believe OpenOffice also does very well.
>
> That being said, you are more likely to find excel installed than either of
> those, excel is the spreadsheet standard at this point, and both those
> products mentioned handle most excel files, so saving as excel should (in
> most cases) be plenty portable.
>
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unless you run into xlsx format office 2007...
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