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From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
To: Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
	Org-mode <Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 12:53:58 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGP6POL9KFTvrMcNDBEdGBs2MExwswUu+6cE2TjuovuBZjpojQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9clnttt.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com>

On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 12:02 PM Robert Thorpe
<rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> wrote:
>
> Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Is it possible for me to edit Microsoft Excel spreadsheet directly
> > from within emacs, especially utilizing the powerful capabilities of
> > orgmode?
>
> People here have suggested lots of things.
>
> It depends on the application.  Jean Louis is correct to say that Emacs
> spreadsheets are not as fully featured as things like Libreoffice.
>
> Plotting charts is a problem.  So is sending spreadsheets to other
> people in a way that they can read the file.
>
> In my past jobs I've used spreadsheets a lot.  I've found that Emacs is
> very useful for the beginning steps.  If you have data in
> comma-separated-value format or tab-separated-value format then you can
> quickly check it over in Emacs and do cleaning-up changes.  But then
> I've found it best to take that CSV/TSV output and put it into a full
> spreadsheet package, to generate final output.  That is, if you need
> charts and distribution to others.

From this point of view, if we want to have both full-features and
powerful capabilities in manipulating spreadsheet, it seems that only
the python based programmatic tools/packages, say, openpyxl
<https://openpyxl.readthedocs.io>, can meet the requirements
currently.

Regards
-- 
Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Polytechnic University of Science and Technology engineering
NO. 552 North Gangtie Road, Xingtai, China


  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-29  4:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-28 15:18 Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-28 16:21 ` Daniel Martín
2020-12-28 16:51   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-28 17:39   ` Filipp Gunbin
2020-12-28 19:47   ` Jean Louis
2020-12-28 21:06     ` Uwe Brauer
2020-12-29  7:32       ` Jean Louis
2020-12-29 15:36         ` Uwe Brauer
2020-12-28 19:36 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-28 19:55   ` Daniele Nicolodi
2020-12-28 20:37     ` Jean Louis
2020-12-29 11:51       ` Stefan Nobis
2020-12-29 13:41         ` Eric S Fraga
2020-12-30 22:19         ` Jean Louis
2020-12-31 12:17           ` Stefan Nobis
2021-01-02  0:48             ` Samuel Wales
2020-12-29  0:06   ` andres.ramirez
2020-12-29  2:29     ` Carson Chittom
2020-12-28 20:12 ` Uwe Brauer
2020-12-29 10:07   ` Eric S Fraga
2020-12-29  4:02 ` Robert Thorpe
2020-12-29  4:53   ` Hongyi Zhao [this message]
2020-12-29  7:49     ` Jean Louis
2020-12-29 14:47       ` Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-29 14:59         ` Greg Minshall
2020-12-29 15:34         ` Jean Louis
2020-12-29 17:54         ` Robert Thorpe
2020-12-29 23:39           ` Hongyi Zhao
2020-12-30  3:06             ` Robert Thorpe
2021-01-08 14:07         ` H. Dieter Wilhelm

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