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From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: org-table export to ods/xlsx etc
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 10:25:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fuf0i5zg.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (raw)

Hi

I am sometimes in need to send my org-table spreadhseets to colleagues
who are using (sigh) excel. I thought sending csv would be enough but it
turns out, 

    -  that sometimes technical inapt people don't know how to open it,

    -  when using a non english language setting say spanish, numbers
       like 3.4 are interpreted as text.

That can be circumvented by sending the spreadheet as ods/xlsx

I did not find any built in function so I came up with two solutions.
One is using gnumeric but then a path must be set to its binaries and
that is platform dependent. The other relies on `org-odt-convert' which
uses in my case LO/OO.

Somebody with better lisp skills might want to generalize the function
to include in a more comfortable way other formats

(defun org-table-export-to-xlsx () 
  (interactive)
  (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 "xlsx")))

next             reply	other threads:[~2017-06-16 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-16 10:25 Uwe Brauer [this message]
     [not found] <eca7bd11a4eb4d3bbb600d77484d4449@HE1PR01MB1898.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com>
2017-06-16 15:25 ` org-table export to ods/xlsx etc Eric S Fraga
2017-06-17 14:54   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-21 13:01     ` Uwe Brauer
     [not found]     ` <4e6e65e9ba354c9a8dab18796c1e92dc@HE1PR01MB1898.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com>
2017-06-21 13:43       ` Eric S Fraga
2017-06-22  6:57         ` Uwe Brauer
     [not found]   ` <a7f661839cd64e268ffe1ccbeb208777@HE1PR01MB1898.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com>
2017-06-17 15:50     ` Eric S Fraga
2017-06-17 16:38   ` Uwe Brauer
     [not found] <mailman.87.1497628817.13493.emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
2017-06-17  1:41 ` edgar

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