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On 30 Sep 04 at 20:27, keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org wrote:

>
>Someone just sent me an Excel file to translate, in Czech, and told me to
>'just type in the English in that column'.  The best I could do was xlhmtl
>(I even have a DOS version) to convert to .htm, and then display the output
>with Links. (Lynx does not do tables, W3m does not do Czech, and links2
>graphical displays Czech without any need to load a font).  But I cannot
>easily translate in the resulting file in a column.
>
>I got this going because the local Red Cross blood donation people send out
>their donation schedules in Excel format instead of text.

This is quite frequent behaviour among Czech managers. They do not
bother with MS Word, but write what they want into a table and send
it as attachment to you.

>
>Is there some linux program that will import and also export Excel .xls
>files, that works with Xvesa?  Maybe even in BL3?

Catdoc ver. 0.93 comes with a second binary xls2csv that converts 2D
.xls sheets into .cvs format, text with tables separated by ';'.
You will be able to import this to any spreadheet, I think even
the minimalist one in BL.

Christof


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