Asif Iqbal <iqbala-hobbit at qwestip.net> wrote:
Is it possible to add a feature to be able to create report in Excel format? My director was wondering if that is possible.
I'm not a hobbit expert, but I bet that would be difficult: Excel uses a proprietary format, which means that only MS is able to speak it correctly.
Other projects speak the Excel format by reverse engineering it, and face the threat of getting incompatible at each new release. MS tends to break compatibility often in the Office suite because that's a good way to toss competitors (and moreover, it pushes customers to upgrade if they want to keep compatibe).
You can export in tab separated values format (TSV) or comma separated values (CSV) and import that into Excel, though.
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