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  • From: Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Dealing with Excel
  • Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 16:02:10 +1000

Hi Sindi,

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:27:16 +0000 (UTC)
sindi keesan <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.
>
> Is there some linux program that will import and also export Excel .xls
> files, that works with Xvesa? Maybe even in BL3?

Not in Xvesa, perhaps, but I have got gnumeric from SW7.1 to run happily
in BL2. But I have also had to install the whole Gnome suite from SW7.1 to
do it.

And I don't know about other languages than English.

Regards,
Ron

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