[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: Simplest and efficient method to create excel (.xlsx or .xls) file and export data

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have you ever seen the specification? have you ever tried to create an xlsx or docx document? have you had a look at the project or spoken to someone that used it? last time i looked, the specification was 12 thousand pages long. besides xlsx and docx are not a flat xml file. there's zip, opc etc. but why would anyone manually write/maintain a huge and complex xml file instead of designing the document in office and merging it with a dataset.

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