On 2007/12/11 21:05 (GMT+0800) Zhang Weiwu apparently typed:
Dear all, this is OT but I am not sure where to ask about it:
Usually when we work on web applications and offer user some spreadsheets for downloading, my primary choice is CSV format. This is because both Excel and OpenOffice users can open it. Now we need to generate spreadsheet from the web application that has merged cells in it.
This time CSV format doesn't work, it cannot represent merged cells.
I prefer not to create Excel formats because I don't wish to encourage use of Excel format. I cannot use ODF because no one can open it (people use things like Excel 2003). PDF also doesn't work because we need to allow users to do some calculation based on table sell data. Is there another format I can offer?
Before Excel even existed there was a virtually universal format used by the app that made PC spreadsheets popular - .wk1 from Lotus 1-2-3. Excel & OO should be able open it. If they can't, they're broken. -- " Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org