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Any spreadsheet app should have some sort of import/export support ON LAUNCH DAY. The omission looks sloppy.

Just to make it clear, it's not that hard to do it. Here's a very basic example in javascript that took roughly 3 hours of time (this parses enough of the XLSX format to generate a CSV output with a few integers and strings; requires html5 file API to be able to manipulate the file in your browser. Best results on chrome):

http://niggler.github.com/js-xlsx/

source: https://github.com/Niggler/js-xlsx

There's an XLS version as well (doesn't support the full panoply of features):

http://niggler.github.com/js-xls/

source: https://github.com/Niggler/js-xls




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