FYI: You can generate a CSV text file, and if you give the filename
extension ".xls", Excel will happily open it upon double-clicking.

Of course, if you use CSV you can only put data in the fields, not formulae,
and you can't do any formatting.

-- kurt


> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of Ken
> Causey
> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 1:49 PM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Re: Accessing Excel sheets
>
>
> My first suggestion would be to export them from Excel in a well
> understood format like CSV (comma-seperated value).
>
> Ken
>
> On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 14:00, Guenther Schmidt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need to develop an application that needs to access MS Excel
> spreadsheets.
> >
> > I am very new to Smalltalk - Squeak and Morphic but I
> nevertheless think
> > that I'll manage to write that app in Squeak, the biggest
> obstacle right
> > know is accessing those spreadsheets, no clue sofar.
> >
> > Any tip would be truly appreciated,
> >
> > thank upfront
> >
> > Günther