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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2004-09-16 16:52 how to convert an excel to a plain text table martin
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