[Sheflug] Can open office help?

[david <david.willington@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all

A school I do some work for has hit a problem with SIMS (their school
management system). Previous versions allowed teachers to export data in
a variety of formats, including csv and excel 2000. The latest version
only works (according to Capita who produce it) with Excel 2003. They've
been warning about the upgrade needed for a year now. When the data is
exported Excel's now fired up automatically and the data appears in a
spreadsheet. The data exported is still only a single table so we can't
see any reason why the option to export as csv is no longer there. It's
a bit inconvenient for me as well as I was using the csv file to get the
pupils, teachers and classes into moodle. The network manager's looked
for a temporary excel file on the hard drive but can't find one, and the
error that comes up on the machines with Office 2000 is something like
'The application couldn't be found' - sorry I didn't jot down the exact
message. Can anyone suggest a way in which OO (or another open source
solution) might help? 

Thanks

David Willington


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