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Subject: Re: Does anyone else wish Matlab could handle Open Documents?
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:00:57 +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
> 
> 
> 
> 
Darren:

I wholeheartedly agree.  My company paid mega bucks for
software from MathSoft.  Why shouldn't we have software
that, if not groundbreaking, is at least with the times?

Scott