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- Path: sparky!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!ferrari.datamark.co.nz!david
- From: david@datamark.co.nz (David Rowland)
- Subject: Re: MS-EXCEL File format?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.233140.42978@datamark.co.nz>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:31:40 GMT
- References: <18777@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Organization: Datamark International Ltd.
- Lines: 49
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- In article <18777@mindlink.bc.ca> Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca (Mischa Sandberg) writes:
- >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.
- >--
- >Mischa Sandberg ... Mischa_Sandberg@mindlink.bc.ca
- > or uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!Mischa_Sandberg
- >*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
- >Engineers think equations are an approximation of reality.
- >Physicists think reality is an approximation of the equations.
- >Mathematicians never make the connection.
-
- I once did something simular. I used Q&E which came with Excel 3 to
- import data directly from a Foxpro app into the Excel spreadsheet.
-
- By using the Excel macro language, I was able to access the table
- using SQL statements accessing Q&E and placing the data into the
- spread sheet, where it could then be formatted.
-
- Q&E can also be used for other database types. If it doesn't come
- with the type of database you are using, contact the vendors and see
- if they have written the interface for it.
-
- Dave
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