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>>I've had great luck with this library: http://npoi.codeplex.com/
>
>Reads interesting, but they seem to be miles away even from Office 2007 formats.
>Over here in germany the previous options to save in an earlier format are nowadays sometimes
>disabled for clients (security raising one of the ugly/lazy heads...)
>forcing me to use an installed Office as part of import/export.
>
>Do you see such a trend on your side of the pond as well or is this one of our
>bureaucracy-minded national trends ?
>
>curious
>
>thomas

Same here in corporate environments.