From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul R Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: exporting from emacs to excel Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:42:34 +0100 Message-ID: <87iqoi83et.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231938064 8710 80.91.229.12 (14 Jan 2009 13:01:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:01:04 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 14 14:02:15 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LN5Nn-0001CE-Vi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:02:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37991 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LN5MX-0008CF-L2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:00:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LN5Lt-0008AX-9L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:00:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LN5Lp-00087q-Ph for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:00:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41344 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LN5Lo-00087b-9Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:00:04 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:58484 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LN5Ln-0003oX-Sr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:00:04 -0500 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LN5Lm-0007J8-7K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:00:02 +0000 Original-Received: from pdc35-1-82-242-132-111.fbx.proxad.net ([82.242.132.111]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:00:02 +0000 Original-Received: from paul.r.ml by pdc35-1-82-242-132-111.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:00:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pdc35-1-82-242-132-111.fbx.proxad.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PYV4huL76IpvCaGnVJaKB1Y3Z0Y= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:61330 Archived-At: rustom> I want to write a bit of elisp to take a file/buffer in org-mode rustom> and export the tables to an excel sheet. You can maybe export as Coma Separated Values, then import into your spreadsheet software. Also, some high quality free spreadsheets are available for use. Check OpenOffice Calc and Gnumeric. -- Paul