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- From: Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca (Mischa Sandberg)
- Subject: MS-EXCEL File format?
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:49:23 GMT
- Message-ID: <18777@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- I would like to export a rather large table from a database to a
- spreadsheet (ca. 200x1000 cells, about 25% non-zero). This would be
- run on a 386 or 486 with 8Mb (albeit some taken up by Windows :-).
-
- A few questions:
-
- 1) Does this sound unreasonable? I am not familiar with EXCEL's
- capacities, nor whether it can page in from a file, if it
- has to. There are strings to place as labels, but the bulk
- of the data are integer numerics.
-
- 2) Am I right in assuming that I ought to go straight for EXCEL's
- native file format, rather than WKS? I would like to plant
- EXCEL formulae in with it, and don't want to subject our
- clients with a long and tedious load-lotus-style-save-excel-style
- step every time they import data.
-
- 3) Where can I get a reference on EXCEL's file format?
-
- Many thanks in advance.
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- Mischa Sandberg ... Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca
- or uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!Mischa_Sandberg
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