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[nbea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Nicolas Beaulieu)]

On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:

<-]Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 00:30:47 +0300
<-]From: Togan Muftuoglu <toganm@xxxxxxxx>
<-]To: "suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx" <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
<-]Subject: [SLE] OT data control of MSWORD & MS EXcel under linux
<-]
<-]Hi everyone,
<-]
<-]Well could be of topic what I will be asking ( just let me know if it
<-]is)

I don't think it is...

<-]
<-]The question is as follows is there a conversion utility to convert
<-]these to identical formats and possibly run a grep (?) command piping
<-]the output to a file for the differences.
<-]
<-]Or am I completely in wrong direction

You're not.  Indeed, it is possible to achieve this task using converters:
catdoc for MS-Word format and the other, xls2csv for MS-Excel format.

Have a look at http://www.ice.ru/~vitus/catdoc/ to get informations on
catdoc (and on other MS-Word converters) and at
http://www.ice.ru/~vitus/catdoc/xls2csv.html to get infos on xls2csv.

I haven't worked with these apps too long, just wasted some time to see if
it worked.  Well, it works.  You can get plain text files from your MS
files and then do whatever you want to compare them.

Good luck.

/NB

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