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From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
Subject: Re: org-table export to ods/xlsx etc
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   > On Friday, 16 Jun 2017 at 10:25, Uwe Brauer wrote:

   > [...]


   > Thanks for this.  Works nicely!  Great addition to the repertoire of
   > useful emacs-lisp snippets.  Would be great to have this incorporated
   > into org.

Maybe this is even more useful?

(defun org-table-export-to-spreadsheet (arg) 
  "Export org table to varios first to cvs and then via LO/OO (or gnumeric)
to various  spreadsheet  format, the most common are `ods', `xls' and 
`xlsx'."
  (interactive "sFormat: ")
  (let* ((source-file  (file-name-sans-extension (buffer-file-name (current-buffer))))
         (csv-file (concat source-file ".csv")))
    (org-table-export csv-file "orgtbl-to-csv")
    (org-odt-convert csv-file arg)))


   > If gnumeric (ssconvert) can be an option, that would be great as well.