Re: [PLUG] OT: MS Office compatible Java programs

[LeRoy Cressy <leroy@lrcressy.com>]

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I have had good sucess with Open Office on the importing of MS Office 
docs including powerpoint, word, and excel.

Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:39:53PM -0500, W. Chris Shank wrote:
>
> > Anyone know of any Java programs (or applets even) that can read (write?)
> > Doc and Xls formats? I'm googling and coming up a little shy. Any Open
> > Source projects doing this?
>
>
> Can't help on java, but abiword and gnumeric do decent jobs of
> understanding doc and xls respectively. In cases where they don't do
> good enough jobs, OpenOffice (formerly StarOffice) gets more details
> right, at the expense of slamming your CPU and imposing a bad
> interface for no good reason.


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