Dealing with Excel

[Peter Hansen]

Robert Hicks wrote:
> No, I have to format fields and everything sad to say. Another poster
> up the chain of this posting gave me the nudge in the direction I
> needed.

Doesn't Excel also support (in addition to binary .xls and simple text 
.csv files) an XML format, which allows full access to formatting and 
all other such features?  I would assume it's reasonably well documented 
and you could just generate that output directly.

-Peter