Integrate a GUI in a excel sheed
Brian Kelley
bkelley at wi.mit.edu
Tue Feb 18 19:24:31 EST 2003
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)
>
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