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* Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es> [2020-12-28 19:22]:
> 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.

It performs poorly and takes very long time. It is limited unless
limits are raised. And its usability on the scale from 0 to 10 is 1.