Integrate a GUI in a excel sheed

[Brian Kelley]

Try here http://dataconv.org/apps_office.html.

There are plenty of open source code for reading excel/word documents 
but only a handful of writers.  Some exists at the above link.  You 
might also try to do a web search for the "cole file system" which is 
the component based file stream used to create Excel and word documents.

Good luck!
Jason wrote:
> Brian (and anyone else),
> do you know of a way to input and output data in Word and Excel format 
> without going through the actual COM from the respective applications? I 
> am attempting to write some small scripts to convert some poorly written 
> Excel sheets into a database and then generate better designed Excel 
> reports as needed from the database.
> 
> However, this is on my own spare time and I use OpenOffice at home. Even 
> so, if I did have MS Office I would not want to rely on the presence of 
> the applications simply to read and write the formats.  Note that I do 
> not plan on doing anything fancy, just plain text with perhaps a 
> handfull of simple formulas. (data sums)
>