On 5 Apr 2005, at 21:54, Phil Tomson wrote:

>
> I'm supposed to put together an Excel spreadsheet.  I've always been 
> the
> type of person who would rather write a script than use Excel, but in
> this case I need to share data with people who use Excel.

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I have had some success generating html files and importing these into 
Excel.  The data is held in a table.  One advantage of this over CVS is 
the formatting embodied in the html is also imported into Excel.

Dave.