exporting attributes

[Joe Chasan]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:12:26AM -0700, Richard Hane wrote:
> I was playing around this morning with some of the Excel spreadsheets we create from filePro.  These are done as dif files.
> 
> The data is fine the column headings and extra blank lines come over correctly as well.
> 
> My question....
> Has anyone found a way to set the cell attributes during the export process?  Things like the column width or height, data position center or right, bold or underline, etc.
> 
> If this could be done I know it would save me a lot of time each week instead of having to do this manually and resave as an xls file.

Dan Coutu @ Snowy Owl Consulting wrote something called xlmaker to cobble 
together some perl modules and do just that.

contact him at: coutu at snowy-owl.com
tel: 802-334-0251

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