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From: Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com>
Subject: Re: how to convert an excel to a plain text table
Date: 16 Sep 2004 18:40:54 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oek6vyyx.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wzhdpyxik3.fsf@rochooni.net

martin@rochooni.net writes:

> hi,
> 
> i'd like to insert the contents of an excel table into a plain text
> table created by the table.el package of Takaaki "Tak" Ota.
> 
> simple cut and paste converts the tab and newline characters into
> blanks and fills just one table cell with the whole paste buffer.
> 
> any ideas ?

Export from Excel as CSV (or some other ASCII format).  There must be
a CSV reading package somewhere.

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__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/

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      reply	other threads:[~2004-09-16 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-16 16:52 how to convert an excel to a plain text table martin
2004-09-16 18:40 ` Pascal Bourguignon [this message]

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