Open Office in SAP

Dear All,
In ALV Grid, there is a option for spreadsheet in place (CtrlShiftF7). ie.,the list is being displayed in Excel screen within SAP environment (Provided, VBA should be enabled in Excel).
Our requirement is to do the above process in Open Office (in Calc). Is there any setting to complete this ?.
Can any one help me out in this regard?
Regards,
S.Sridhar

Hi Sridhar,
Check this SAP note under Product Enhancement
1270346 - "Open Office"
It says
"Open Office (www.openoffice.org) is an open-source suite of office applications that is free to use.
Business Objects Planning is tightly integrated with Microsoft Excel and is not supported with any other spreadsheet application."
Check this link as well
[Open office and SAP|http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/Search;jsessionid=1F2D4A4B4F04742DA6D3599F66E765CA?resultsPerPage=40&query=SAP]
Regards

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En vista de que se quieren minimizar costos mi pregunta va en referencia a que si se puede utilizar open office con SAP BO, si alguien sabe la respuesta por favor contestenme. jejeje

Estimada Mary,
Aún cuando el comentario anterior indica que en la practica open office funciona con Business One, nos gustaria recordarles que dicha plataforma no es soportada oficialmente.
Lo anterior significa, que de ser implementado, no podran remitir al soporte de Sap ningún mensaje con incidentes relacionados al mismo.
Les recordamos igualmente, que Business One interactua con la suite de Office no solo para exportar documentos a Excel, igualmente utiliza funciones tales como envios de correo electronicos (outlook) y fax (MS Fax), asi como exportación a excel.
Información de las plataformas soportada esta accesible en el siguiente link:
http://channel.sap.com/sbo/platforms > Desktop System Platforms
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Thanks and best regards
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Hi,
You can use this function module 'ALSM_EXCEL_TO_INTERNAL_TABLE',
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FIELD-SYMBOLS: <FS1>.
Variables
DATA: LV_BEGCOL TYPE I VALUE 1,
        LV_BEGROW TYPE I VALUE 1,
        LV_ENDCOL TYPE I VALUE 100,
        LV_ENDROW TYPE I VALUE 32000.
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DATA: LV_ZWLEN TYPE I,
        LV_ZWLINES TYPE I.
DATA: LV_TIND(4) TYPE N.
DATA: LV_ZWFELD(30).
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DATA: BEGIN OF LT_INTERN OCCURS 0.
          INCLUDE STRUCTURE ALSMEX_TABLINE.
DATA: END OF LT_INTERN.
DATA: BEGIN OF LT_INTERN1 OCCURS 0.
          INCLUDE STRUCTURE ALSMEX_TABLINE.
DATA: END OF LT_INTERN1.
DATA: BEGIN OF LT_COL OCCURS 0,
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         SIZE TYPE I.
DATA: END OF LT_COL.
DATA: BEGIN OF LT_FIELDNAMES OCCURS 3,
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DATA: BEGIN OF LT_DATA_TAB OCCURS 0,
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         VALUE_0002(50),
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         VALUE_0005(50),
         VALUE_0006(50),
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      I_BEGIN_ROW             = LV_BEGROW
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      I_END_ROW               = LV_ENDROW
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ENDLOOP.
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Internal Table, Current Row Index
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Dileep .C

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KB943556:
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data: e_col1 type ole2_object.
data: e_col2 type ole2_object.
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do 20 times.
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