whoa! Lots of great answers here. Thanks for the help, I'm going to go through all these answers one by one and figure out which is best for me. I won't be doing a straight dump, so it's gonna be interesting =p
It's easy to do in C# though! But hopefully a solution listed here will be just as painless Once again, thanks On Apr 10, 8:39 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 10, 3:22 am, Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > yeah but the thing is XLS spreadsheets have a lot more > > > meta-data than CVS can handle > > > I've found the easiest way for us was to use the "XML > > Spreadsheet" option (available via the Save As->Type drop-down in > > at least Excel 2003 if not 2000, and readable in 2007 too). It's > > fairly easy to reverse-engineer from an exported example, and > > much cleaner than OOXML or pure XLS format. It's pretty easy to > > turn into a Django template too. Most importantly for my uses, > > it's possible to do things like keep leading zeros, which Excel > > likes to dump from CSV/Tab files. > > I generate OpenXML docs from within the admin app. They're fairly easy > to store in the db as well. I do this as then I can edit them online > and then zip them up when I need them. I'd recommend spending the time > to get your head around OpenXML, though that does depend on whether > you're looking for CSV+abitofmetadata or an actual Excel document. > > Regards, > > Felix --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
