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A common example is a Microsoft Excel file, which is familiar to
many businesspeople. This is a useful approach, since many office workers have been
trained to do simple calculations on Excel spreadsheets. (Of course, Microsoft Excel files
can be opened in OpenOffice.org as well, so it??™s something of a spreadsheet lingua
franca.)
nNote Currently, there aren??™t any open source solutions for creating Microsoft Word or PowerPoint documents;
Microsoft??™s proprietary format can make interoperability difficult. Additionally,Word and PowerPoint
are commonly used for presentation purposes, and they can often be supplanted by HTML and PDF versions.
You??™ve already done several HTML examples. Chapters 6, 8, and 10 have examples of PDF output.
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C H A P T E R 4
In this chapter, you??™ll create a formatted spreadsheet for the end user, and then you??™ll
see how to create a fully functional GUI application.
CONTROLLING QUICKTIME WITH A DESKTOP APPLICATION
An example of a useful desktop application is one that I created for The Casting Frontier, a digital casting
services firm.


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