write RTFText of a field works on a Word file but not on an Excel file

Andre.Bisseret Andre.Bisseret at inria.fr
Fri Apr 25 10:40:41 EDT 2008


Le 25 avr. 08 à 15:36, Eric Chatonet a écrit :
> Bonjour André,
>
> Unfortunately, this is normal:
> Excel is a number processor not a word processor ;-)
> AFAIK I don't know if it is possible to export to Excel something  
> different from a tab/tab/return text file, i.e. the minimum.
> Excel uses its own internal format (that depends in addition of the  
> version): probably some others on this list will be able to tell you  
> more but MS products are always a mess ;-)
>
Bonjour 	Éric et merci
for your quick answer.
Then, I am going to export simple text only; (fortunately that"is  
working ;-))
but the user will have to add formatting features manually on the file  
before saving it as .xls;
it's a pity !

Best regards from Grenoble
André





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