Re: suggestions for viewing word/excel files
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:57:15AM -0700, Will Yardley wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:51:04AM -0700, Nabeel Khatri wrote:
>
> > what's the best way to view word/excel attachments? i'm running
> > debian linux. i've been reading that w3m seems to be the preferred
> > method, but i'm not sure how to get the files converted to html.
>
> "antiword" works pretty well (other than not working on .rtf files)
> Excel, not sure. With something like that, a graphical program like
> OpenOffice might do a better job, though it doesn't do the greatest job
> on Excel files.
The afore-mentioned catdoc comes with 'xls2csv' which sort of works,
sometimes, on primary table data in basic xls files. It's one
of those "better than nothing" things.
mm