[ic] what spreadsheet program in windows to use

Rene Hertell interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Fri Aug 2 13:01:02 2002


> What Rene recommended should work great.  Alternatively, you can
> try using
> the native XLS format instead of working with TXT files.  A
> meager howto is
> online:
>
> http://www.icdevgroup.org/~danb/
>
> Second, I've found that OpenOffice actually does *better* than excel when
> working with these file formats (i.e. Excel crashes on some of the output
> from Spreadsheet::ParseExcel, but OpenOffice Calc opens it fine).

Ahh... I thought that I had my windows/excel installation somehow screwed
up.. That's good to hear that I wasn't the only one with an crappy
Excel-version ;-)


Rene