[Lazarus] Reading a spreadsheet with fpspreadsheet

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:

> Ah, excel 5+ binary format is terrible ... I would be more inclined to
> fix something readable like OpenDocument or OOXML. You can use
> OpenOffice which is free to convert a XLS to OpenDocument.


Strange advise. 
OpenOffice is not always available to the end user where the program must run ?

Michael.