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Originally Posted by Manichean
... and that is one of the reasons people invented spreadsheet programs in the first place  (I'm not criticizing, but I have to confess that my inner geek just died a little thinking about editing tabular data in a word processor.)
EDIT: This is totally off topic. It's late. I should be in bed. Don't mind me. |
Heck, I didn't even mind my Mama.
As I said, Word happened to be easier for me for this. If I do my sorts in calibre first, then create the CSV file, all I have to do is paste it as a table into page 2 of a preformatted Word template I have set the font size in, set margins to almost zero, and presized the pages to the same size as my JetBook Lite screen. I could hide the cell lines but I find it easier to read if I leave them in. I make a simple Table of Contents on page 1 to show which page each letter starts on so I can jump to that page instead of scrolling through the whole thing, then I create a PDF of the doc with Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard (accessed from within Word 2007) and put it on my JBL. I would have to go through almost twice as many steps to do the same in Excel. This works for me only because I don't have to do any editing once it's pasted in Word.
My inner geek is a lazy old bitch (as am I).
