Reading directly from Excel

Michael Grinder michaeltgrinder at gmail.com
Tue Apr 16 16:06:56 EDT 2013


Depending on how the data is structured, you may be able to use an ODBC
connection to manipulate the Excel file.


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel <
skip at magicgate.com> wrote:

> Cut and paste not an option.  I have a client that stores all of their work
> in Excel and that will not change.... I need to be able to manipulate that
> data on the fly.
>
> Curry Kenworth, come through for me!  You would be a lifesaver!
>
> SKIP
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Colin Holgate <coiin at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > Doing a copy from the Excel cells and a paste into LiveCode doesn't quite
> > work. But, doing a paste into a text editor, and then a paste into
> > LiveCode, does work. Or asa worse case you reselect the text after the
> > paste in the text editor, and copy that before pasting into LiveCode.
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