creating Excel with text
Good point. XML with XSLT will be (should be) the default in future. It
should work in Excel 2002+ (although I admit to never having done it
myself<vbg).
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Theoretically, XML might be a possibility but I wouldn't like to try it
myself.
Bob Phillips wrote:
No, a text file doesn't hold all the detail about formatting. That is
partly
why Excel files are much bigger than text files, it contains that
formatting
data within it.
There is a Rich Text Format file type (RTF), which holds some formatting
details when opened in Word, but I haven't tried opening one of those in
Excel, but it won't do what you want.
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