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On Tuesday 01 April 2003 10:58 am, Jack Coates wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 07:51, Frankie wrote:
> > thats great....
> >
> > do u have a suggestion for me as to a spreadsheet format ???
>
> .sxw if you must be free, and encourage people to use OpenOffice on all
> platforms, or .xls if you want to get to practical working state

So what IS wrong with *.csv?  You can format it so that it is compatible with 
windoze or Mac or linux/unix.  It is a simple text file and is importable 
readable by virtually anything (as Anna stated).

I too have used .xls, but it depends on my audience/target.  For the broad, 
general sense such that ANYONE could use your file regardless, I would think 
.csv would work.  If you know your target will use excel, then by all means 
use .xls.

If I want to analyze my data, I save it as .csv and then can import it as a 
data file for grace or similar app.  If it is merely a basic spreadsheet, it 
almost doesn't matter.

My problem here is that I jumped in at a latter stage of the discussion and 
haven't really seen the previous messages beyond the last 3 or 4.  


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