Import from excel?

[Derek Atkins]

I have no clue..  I haven't looked into the problem at all, and
I have no idea what the Gnumeric widget would buy us (I'm not sure
what "that widget" means).

-derek

plussier at mindspring.com writes:

> In a message dated: 29 May 2003 10:12:10 EDT
> Derek Atkins said:
> 
> >That assumes you even HAVE column headers.. You may not!  csv/tab
> >import is just hard, period.
> >
> >The hardest part, IMHO, is the user interface to determine how to
> >interpret the columns, but there might be more complicated logic
> >as well (albeit unlikely).
> 
> Is there any way that code from Gnumeric could be used?  They've 
> already got that widget, it might be a matter of massaging it for use 
> with GnuCash.
> 
> (I mention this as an option to be pursued by someone who cares about 
> csv/tab import capability :)
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