[Tfug] Bulk OpenOffice Conversion

Rich r-lists at studiosprocket.com
Sat May 26 13:11:15 MST 2007


On May 24, 2007, at 3:51 pm, Jim Secan wrote:

> Customer wants *.xls-format files,
OpenXML is your answer then.
Here's a starter: http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/ 
2005/06/27/433152.aspx
> would like to have nice formatting
Ha! With equal priority to usability?

> (I'd
> like to have free beer, but one can't have everything).  Yes, cvs  
> files
> will work and are easy to build, but that's not what is needed.   
> I'm now
> not sure that going through OO helps me, since I still have the OO- 
> to-Excel
> conversion to automate.
Barking up the wrong tree. OO is just a MS Office clone. Not a  
genuine Unix tool (as has been mentioned already).

R.





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