[GNC] GNU generated report in HTML to XL

Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Sun Jan 6 10:55:43 EST 2019


On Thursday, January 3, 2019 5:33:06 PM CET David Carlson wrote:
> I was able to run a quick test using release 2.6.17 in Ubuntu 16.04 and
> found that first, when I tried to save a P&L report in HTML format GnuCash
> did not append a .html suffix.  In Linux this did not create a problem, but
> Windows did not recognize the file as html.  Appending ".html" to the
> filename solved that problem.
> 
> Once I had appended ".html" to the filename I could open it in Firefox or
> whichever browser and I could get a nice printout directly or select all
> [ctrl-A, ctrl-C] and paste [ctrl-V] into a waiting new LibreOffice 6.0.7.3
> Calc doc in WIN 7.
> 
It should even be possible to  copy and paste directly from gnucash to 
libreoffice as far as I know. The detour via firefox or similar is not needed. 
That's only needed for a printout that's not cutting lines in half.

Geert




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