NAME

       Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Simple - A simple single-sheet Excel document

SYNOPSIS

         my $ss = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Simple->new;
            $ss->write_bold_row(\@headings);
            $ss->write_row(\@data);

         print $ss->data;
               # or
               $ss->save("filename.xls");

DESCRIPTION

       This provides an abstraction to the Spreadsheet::WriteExcel module for easier creation of
       simple single-sheet Excel documents.

       In its most basic form it provides two methods for writing data: write_row and
       write_bold_row which write the data supplied to the next row of the spreadsheet.

       However, you can also use $ss->book and $ss->sheet to get at the underlying workbook and
       worksheet from Spreadsheet::WriteExcel if you wish to manipulate these directly.

METHODS

   new
         my $ss = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Simple->new;

       Create a new single-sheet Excel document. You should not supply this a filename or
       filehandle. The data is stored internally, and can be retrieved later through the 'data'
       method or saved using the 'save' method.

   write_row / write_bold_row
         $ss->write_bold_row(\@headings);
         $ss->write_row(\@data);

       These write the list of data into the next row of the spreadsheet.

       Caveat: An internal counter is kept as to which row is being written to, so if you mix
       these functions with direct writes of your own, these functions will continue where they
       left off, not where you have written to.

   data
         print $ss->data;

       This returns the data of the spreadsheet. If you're planning to print this to a web-
       browser, be sure to print an 'application/excel' header first.

   book / sheet
         my $workbook  = $ss->book;
         my $worksheet = $ss->sheet;

       These return the underlying Spreadsheet::WriteExcel objects representing the workbook and
       worksheet respectively. If you find yourself making more that a trivial amount of use of
       these, you probably shouldn't be using this module, but using Spreadsheet::WriteExcel
       directly.

   save
               $ss->save("filename.xls");

       Save the spreadsheet with the given filename.

BUGS

       This can't yet handle dates in a sensible manner.

AUTHOR

       Tony Bowden

BUGS and QUERIES

       Please direct all correspondence regarding this module to:
         bug-Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-Simple@rt.cpan.org

SEE ALSO

       Spreadsheet::WriteExcel. John McNamara has done a great job with this module.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Tony Bowden. All rights reserved.

       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.