>> Anyway, I think I've hit upon a problem which COM might actually be able
>> to solve... Can I use COM to transfer some numbers into Excel and get
>> them graphed? And if so, how might I go about doing that?
>>
>> (The alternative is to use GNUplot. But it does draw particularly ugly
>> graphs, and it's awkward and unintuitive to use...)
>>
>
> why not simply Metapost?
>
> or POV?

Well, yeah, I could go reinvent the wheel... or I could quickly utilise 
something that already exists.

There are plenty of other possibilities too - Google Charts, for 
example. What none of these let you easily do is go back into the 
spreadsheet and tweak the data.

Currently my program spits out a CSV file, which I then open in Excel, 
manually select the range of cells I want, manually step through the 
chart wizard, and now I've got a graph. It seems like there ought to be 
some way to automate that...

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