Kai Ponte wrote:
On Tuesday 11 December 2007 05:05, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
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?
Never treid this but I'd heard good things...
http://sourceforge.net/projects/odf-converter
...in this manner your customers can open ODF files from within MS Office. I'll give it a shot today when I go to work to see what it does in Office 2003.
There are also those described here (note the Sun one): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_software#Third_party_support:_Four... You could also point them to the OOo download page :) Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org