Modify reports after exporting

[Michael Hendry]

On 22 Sep 2013, at 13:28, R. Victor Klassen <rvklassen at gmail.com> wrote:

> My experience (at least with some reports) is that I can open them in Open Office text, and then select the table that contains the content I actually want and copy that into Open Office Calc.
> 
> For some reason, just trying to open the report in Calc put the whole thing in one cell.

Using Libre Office Calc on my Mac (OS X 10.8), I can simply Open the exported HTML file, and it is opened in a spreadsheet page.

Opening the same file in a Virtual Machine running Ubuntu 12.04 using LIbre Office Calc, I find I'm forced to view it as a LibreOffice Writer/Web file, not in a spreadsheet format.

In practice, either format allows me to edit the report - it could be argued that it's safer to be editing in a word processor, because there is no expectation that formulae will adjust totals etc behind the scenes.

Michael


> 
> 
> On 2013-09-22, at 6:31 AM, Maf. King wrote:
> 
>> On Sun 22 September 13 13:25:49 Omer Hayat wrote:
>>> I need to make some specific modifications to reports such as 'Customer
>>> Report', 'Vendor Report' etc but cannot make them in Gnucash. The reports
>>> are exported in .html format, therefore they open up in a browser.
>>> Previously I used to open them in Internet Explorer and then export from
>>> there to excel. But now I'm on linux and cannot do so. Any suggestions will
>>> be really helpful.
>> 
>> Hi Omar,
>> 
>> import the html directly into libre office calc?  
>> 
>> 0.02
>> Maf
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