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  • What is not practical or attractive? Do you need to use formulars, do you like to do interactive inserts? What do you need? Commented Nov 9, 2011 at 16:39
  • @userunknown The readability of comma or tab separated values clearly suffers unless each value is of same width as all others. Commented Nov 9, 2011 at 17:59
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    are you looking for read-write access to spreadsheets, or read-only access? Commented Nov 9, 2011 at 21:51
  • @TimKennedy Ideally something that can replace Excel for basic tasks, but something that can output a spreadsheet with decent formatting would be great. Commented Nov 10, 2011 at 17:10
  • @Sergey: Well - the readability is fine if you use tabs, and all values fall into the same length-range in multiples of 8, to be a bit more precise. Tabs where invented for this purpose. Commented Nov 10, 2011 at 19:09