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Re: Time for something new for Excel?

From Kevin Powick <nospam@spamless.com>
Newsgroups comp.databases.pick
Subject Re: Time for something new for Excel?
Date 2011-01-29 13:48 -0500
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On 2011-01-29 09:01:31 -0500, dawn <dawnwolthuis@gmail.com> said:

> For example, I have not even looked into
> how to make a column the width I want it to be in the exported csv,
> much less put a background color on the header or change the header
> row font.

I do not believe this is possible with a straight csv import.  You 
would have to use a data format that your target spreadsheet program 
can import, such as HTML, ODF, OOXML, etc.

A nice summary of various spreadsheets can be found here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_spreadsheet_software

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Kevin Powick

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