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From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to use complex excel formula in org
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2021 10:40:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1ghglci.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87tuldm8r4.fsf@ucl.ac.uk

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>>> "ESF" == Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Thursday,  1 Jul 2021 at 18:28, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>> I currently have to collaborate with an excel file that contains quite a
>> bit of complex formula. 

> Do you need bi-directional collaboration?  If you do, I doubt there's a
> solution out there.  Collaboration with people using MS based tools is
> challenging (being polite here).

Xlsx-->org would be enough for the moment.

>> I cannot simply import the file via xlsx-->csv-->org

> xlsx is XML based so you could, in principle, read the information
> directly from the xl/worksheets/sheetN.xml component in the file (the
> xlsx file itself should be a zip archive).  The format will consist of
> entries such as

> <row r="1" ...><c r="A1"...<f>FF</f><v>XX</v></c>...</row>

> where FF would be the formula (and XX the value of that formula) for
> entry in A1.  Lots of detail omitted in the above, mind you.

Right, this is basically what I am trying to do now. A manual approach
of sorts.

I just realized that there are operations I am not sure how to do them
in org. I'll send a different post about it.

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      reply	other threads:[~2021-07-02  8:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-01 16:28 how to use complex excel formula in org Uwe Brauer
2021-07-01 17:02 ` Jonathan McHugh
2021-07-02  8:15 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-07-02  8:40   ` Uwe Brauer [this message]

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