On 12/11/2007 09:05 PM, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Dear all, this is OT but I am not sure where to ask about it: > > Usually when we work on web applications and offer user some > spreadsheets for downloading, my primary choice is CSV format. This is > because both Excel and OpenOffice users can open it. Now we need to > generate spreadsheet from the web application that has merged cells in it. > > This time CSV format doesn't work, it cannot represent merged cells. > > I prefer not to create Excel formats because I don't wish to encourage > use of Excel format. I cannot use ODF because no one can open it (people > use things like Excel 2003). PDF also doesn't work because we need to > allow users to do some calculation based on table sell data. Is there > another format I can offer? > > Would it be possible to go ahead and use the best choice, odf, and either allow them to use an add on for their MS Office, or co-install OpenOffice. It is still a free solution, and is better in the long run. Maybe they will learn OpenOffice is quite a viable choice and they will dump the MS tax.
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