Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.

[Tomas Nordin]

Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es> writes:

> Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Is it possible for me to edit Microsoft Excel spreadsheet directly
>> from within emacs, especially utilizing the powerful capabilities of
>> orgmode?
>
> Not directly, but you could first save the Excel spreadsheet as CSV and
> then import it into Org-Mode using M-x org-table-import.  I haven't
> checked how this works in practice, so YMMV.

I think even you might be able to just copy / paste into a buffer and
use the org table import thing. What I have seen the copy produce
tab-separated fields that can be understood by org import...

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Tomas