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Why can I send data directly to Excel only from Emperor? Can I use OpenOffice instead?

April 26, 2017Data directly emperor Excel OpenOffice send

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Why can I send data directly to Excel only from Emperor? Can I use OpenOffice instead?

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The ‘Send to Excel’ feature in Emperor/Emperor Lite takes advantage of ‘COM’ a component built into MS Office. Not to be confused with the ‘.COM’ technology this ‘COM’ component is used to interact between MS Office programs including Excel. Unfortunately this technique can not be used with OpenOffice as ‘COM’ is proprietary to Microsoft. In future versions of Emperor/Emperor Lite the reporting will be improved and the report format made more open which will enable use with other programs. Presently the only way to get the data into OpenOffice would be to either manually export the data (File-Export) or use the Results from Emperor/Emperor Lite and open the csv file in OpenOffice.