Is it at all possible to share .xls files and edit them w/o Excel Installed?

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Zach Thiel

Is it at all possible to share .xls files and edit them
w/o Excel Installed? Possibly with back end programming or
any other means?
 
Hi#
you may have a look at OpenOffice (www.openoffice.org).
This application is able to read/write Excel files.

I don't think you want to go into the business developing
your own spreadsheet application :-)
 
Is it at all possible to share .xls files and edit them
w/o Excel Installed? Possibly with back end programming or
any other means?
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In theory there are Perl modules that read and write Excel files. Presumably in
between these I/O operations it should be possible to modify bits & pieces. Is
there some compelling need to use .XLS files as opposed to plain text or XML?
 
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