Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.z...@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
