Re: Software to read/write Excel to CD?

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Michael A. Peters <mpeters@mac.com> 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. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > unless you run into xlsx format office 2007... -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat