[Gretl-users] Importing excel sheets for batch jobs..

Allin Cottrell cottrell at wfu.edu
Fri Sep 1 13:03:02 EDT 2006


On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Riccardo Jack Lucchetti wrote:

> On Fri, September 1, 2006 09:08, Antonello Lobianco wrote:
>> Hello.. while in the GUI it is possible to import Excel documents (and
>> it would be nice also openoffice), I can't see a way to do that using
>> the terminal..
>
> Not trivial, as Excel files can have more than 1 folder.

Would it be worth adding the ability to import from XLS in a 
simple "no-options" mode?  That is, we alwats import from the 
first sheet in the workbook, and we always start the import at 
cell A1?  That would not be too difficult.

Allin.



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