From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.orgmode,gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs. Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 18:34:27 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87v9clnttt.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17195"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) Cc: help-gnu-emacs , Org-mode To: Hongyi Zhao Original-X-From: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 29 16:39:18 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geo-emacs-orgmode@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kuH5g-0004Ly-RK for geo-emacs-orgmode@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2020 16:39:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57334 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kuH5e-00038M-Tf for geo-emacs-orgmode@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 29 Dec 2020 10:39:14 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59942) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kuH54-00037u-VK; Tue, 29 Dec 2020 10:38:38 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:55443) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kuH52-0004Qg-EK; Tue, 29 Dec 2020 10:38:38 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.210.145.189]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 000000000029543F.000000005FEB4D78.0000308D; Tue, 29 Dec 2020 08:38:32 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Hongyi Zhao , Org-mode , help-gnu-emacs Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.orgmode:134253 gmane.emacs.help:126900 Archived-At: * Hongyi Zhao [2020-12-29 17:49]: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 5:40 PM Jean Louis wrote: > > > > * Hongyi Zhao [2020-12-29 07:55]: > > > From this point of view, if we want to have both full-features and > > > powerful capabilities in manipulating spreadsheet, it seems that only > > > the python based programmatic tools/packages, say, openpyxl > > > , can meet the requirements > > > currently. > > > > What are you requirements? > > I use Linux as my working environment exclusively. So, I can't access > the native MS Office supplied for macOS/Windows. But I sometimes > really need to manipulate and process MS Office documents, especially > DOCX and XLSX files. Though there are some free and open source office > suites, e.g. LibreOffice, but none of them can completely compatible > with the MS Office. Yes, not everything is compatible. Please mention that specific feature not compatible that you know of.