From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: export org table to other formats (gnumeric or scalc or xlsx)
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2021 16:51:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lf6k4xvm.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87fswtn1ei.fsf@gmail.com
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> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
> The big problem here is that there is no single format understood by all
> these different programs which you can use. While CSV works OK for data,
> it does not support formulas and other meta data. In particular,
> translating formulas is a real challenge.
> I went down this rabbit hole some years back i.e. having a workflow
> which allowed me to interact with others who used Excel and allowing me
> to use org mode.
> It took hours and hours of additional work and never worked reliably
> because
> - I never found a way of 'exporting' to a format which could be imported
> by Excel and included formulas
> - None of the Excel export formats support full export of Excel -
> especially at the meta data level i.e. Visual Basic macros and other
> 'objects'. Workbooks were a real pain.
So if I understand you correctly you exported/imported formulas
*manually*.
One of the problems I face is the fact that org-table formulas are
column based and show as such, while excel and friends only reveal the
formula for a cell and so one is forced to take care of this difference,
manually.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-05 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-04 12:40 export org table to other formats (gnumeric or scalc or xlsx) Uwe Brauer
2021-07-04 22:00 ` Tim Cross
2021-07-04 23:22 ` [External] : " Daniel Ortmann
2021-07-05 14:48 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-07-05 14:56 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-07-06 4:01 ` Greg Minshall
2021-07-07 7:01 ` [R example for org-table with ifs] (was: [External] : Re: export org table to other formats (gnumeric or scalc or xlsx)) Uwe Brauer
2021-07-07 11:59 ` [R example for org-table with ifs] Eric S Fraga
2021-07-08 5:13 ` [R example for org-table with ifs] (was: [External] : Re: export org table to other formats (gnumeric or scalc or xlsx)) Greg Minshall
2021-07-08 6:26 ` [R example for org-table with ifs] Uwe Brauer
2021-07-08 7:33 ` Greg Minshall
2021-07-05 6:28 ` export org table to other formats (gnumeric or scalc or xlsx) Uwe Brauer
2021-07-05 14:51 ` Uwe Brauer [this message]
2021-07-05 22:29 ` Tim Cross
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