Computer arithmetic

[Scott Walker]

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> Bill Campbell
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> Subject: Re: Computer arithmetic
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> On Sun, Jun 16, 2013, Scott Walker wrote:
> >JP,
> >
> >Thanks for the info.  I've been fighting getting it correct (exporting
> >data from fp & importing in Excel) for a while and every trick helps.
> 
> I fought this importing data into the LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org
> spreadsheets from my accounting application, where the spread sheet
> program would do odd interpretations of data type regardless of my
> quoting.
> 
> My solution was to do the import in two steps, first into a MySQL or
> Postgresql database, then import from that into LibreOffice.
> Unfortunately, the last time I looked, Excel didn't have the ability to
> connect to real SQL databases.
> 
> Bill
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Bill,

Thanks for the suggestion.  I've screwed with it so long and in so many
different ways I've come to hate the whole thing.....unfortunately customers
always ask "Can I PRINT the report to excel?".  The don't have a clue.

Regards,

Scott