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Thanks for the support guys!

Some people have suggested using delimited files as a
replacement for Excel.  There is no way a delimited file can
even be remotely considered a suitable replacement.  My
problem is that I don't merely want to write data to a
spreadsheet once and be done with it.  I want to
consistently manipulate the data in a spreadsheet and have
the spreadsheet program (preferable Calc) perform all the
pre-set calculations when Matlab is done with the file. 
This works well with Excel (only in Windows, of course). 
This would be a great thing to implement in Matlab, and
especially easy since OpenDocument is just that, open.  If I
was half a programmer, I would have done this already.  Any
one up to the challenge?