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Subject: Re: Does anyone else wish Matlab could handle Open Documents?
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:50:54 +0000 (UTC)
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"Darren " <darrenb@NOSPAM.udel.edu> wrote in message 
<f75gcn$6h$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> I personally see this as a severe hindrance to Matlab.  
It works great on Linux and MacOS but can only read and 
write Excel spreadsheets, and that rarely works properly 
without ActiveX.
> 
> Has anyone developed code to handle (read and write) Open 
Document Spreadsheets?  If not, Mathworks needs to get off 
their butts and get with the times.
> 
> Let me know what you guys think.
> 
> Darren
> 
Hey Darren,

On that excel note, you can just write tab-delimited data 
in a plain text file and give it the extention .xls. Works 
great ;)