Re: exporting from emacs to excel

["Colin S. Miller" <no-spam-thank-you@csmiller.demon.co.uk>]

rustom wrote:
> I want to write a bit of elisp to take a file/buffer in org-mode and
> export the tables to an excel sheet.
> 
> I know (very little) of how to write the code to make an excel sheet
> from wscript. eg
> giving wscript the following, opens a blank excel sheet:
> 
> Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
> objExcel.Workbooks.Add
> objExcel.Visible = True
> 
> Is there some easy/natural way to get this functionality inside elisp?
Rustom,

That is using DDE/OLE to control Excel. OLE (Object Linking and Embedding)
uses DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) to send messages between the applications.

A very quick google reveled http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/~luke/xls/wxls/wxls/node12.html
You might want to use DDESpy (part of Visual Studio) to see what your VB app is sending to Excel.
However, that elisp module might not support enough of DDE to implement OLE.

HTH,
Colin S. Miller


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