From: Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
To: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet editing directly from within emacs.
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 04:02:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9clnttt.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGP6POJ06GJs7AK6Y3quxAJDGPpWbmvio8tvBheN_ETywadR1A@mail.gmail.com> (message from Hongyi Zhao on Mon, 28 Dec 2020 23:18:21 +0800)
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.
BR,
Robert Thorpe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-29 4:44 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 [this message]
2020-12-29 4:53 ` Hongyi Zhao
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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