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From: Tomas Nordin <tomasn@posteo.net>
To: "Daniel Martín" <mardani29@yahoo.es>,
	"Hongyi Zhao" <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
	Org-mode <Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 17:50:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tus56fja.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1lfdh3nrf.fsf@yahoo.es>

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...

--
Tomas



  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-28 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-28 15:18 Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-28 16:21 ` Daniel Martín
2020-12-28 16:50   ` Tomas Nordin [this message]
2020-12-28 16:51   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-28 17:39   ` Filipp Gunbin
2020-12-28 19:47   ` Jean Louis
2020-12-28 21:06     ` Uwe Brauer
2020-12-28 19:36 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-28 19:55   ` Daniele Nicolodi
2020-12-28 20:37     ` Jean Louis
2020-12-29  0:06   ` andres.ramirez
2020-12-30 16:56     ` Bob Newell
2021-01-08  6:05       ` Jean Louis
2020-12-28 20:12 ` Uwe Brauer
2020-12-29  4:02 ` Robert Thorpe
2020-12-29  4:53   ` Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-29  7:49     ` Jean Louis
2020-12-29 14:47       ` Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-29 14:59         ` Greg Minshall
2020-12-29 15:34         ` Jean Louis
2020-12-29 17:54         ` Robert Thorpe
2020-12-29 23:39           ` Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-30  3:06             ` Robert Thorpe
2021-01-08 14:07         ` H. Dieter Wilhelm

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