Re: creating something M$ Excel can read?

Mark Hobley wrote:
Mike <mikee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is there some way to generate a file on linux that contains
formulas, formatting, etc, that can be read by Excel?

Microsoft Excel can read comma separated lists (.csv files). I would
create a test file, and try importing it into Excel.

And you can use a little trick. Because Excel is stupid (or inteiligent?) you can create standard CSV file but name it as *.XLS :-) Really! Try it ;-)

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