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Re: how to convert an excel to a plain text table
From: |
Pascal Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: how to convert an excel to a plain text table |
Date: |
16 Sep 2004 18:40:54 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
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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