[Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] Excel Export from QGIS attribute table

[David Fawcett]

If the QGIS team decides to add this feature, they might want to look
at the freexl library.  (Brought to you by Sandro of SpatiaLite fame.

http://www.gaia-gis.it/FreeXL/freexl-1.0.0a-doxy-doc/index.html

David.

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Filipe Silva Dias <filipesdias at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I agree that such a tool would be very useful for many people. In my work I
> frequently have to collect environmental variables in a GIS and then export
> them to Excel/Calc for processing. To be able to this quickly with a few
> clicks would save me (and many people) a lot of time and patience.
>
> In ArcGIS this is only possible via the XtoolsPro extension (which is partly
> free), which directly exports the attribute table to a Excel spreadsheet (
> http://www.xtoolspro.com/tools.asp#e5 ). I used ArcGIS for several years and
> during that time users kept asking ESRI to include the extension in core,
> with no success.
>
> This is obviously a detail for QGIS development, but for many end users like
> me, it makes a LOT of difference. Sometimes small details like these play a
> huge role when it comes to decide to start using a software.
>
> Best regards
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Giovanni Manghi <giovanni.manghi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Andreas
>>
>> >  Who else would be interested in such functionality?
>>
>> this is one of the features qgis users/trainees ask more around here. So
>> I guess that if they represent a part of the qgis users universe, such
>> feature will interest quite a lot of people :)
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> -- Giovanni --
>>
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