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Re: Show HN: Publisheet – Publish Excel sheets as interactive web pages

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This is amazing, but there is no way that my firm will send any excels with our data to a relatively small and unknown third-party provider who will host it on a public URL. Are you thinking about allowing users to run this on-site?

really amazing one

Re: Show HN: Publisheet – Publish Excel sheets as interactive web pages

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This looks sleek and well-made! However, this is a pretty crowded space. Spreadsheet Converter (https://www.spreadsheetconverter.com) and Spreadsheet Web (https://www.spreadsheetweb.com) are directly comparable and have been around for years. (Like Publisheet, Spreadsheet Converter offers an Excel add-in.)

Then there are lots of web app builders, including Calculoid (https://www.calculoid.com), Calconic (https://www.calconic.com), uCalc Pro (https://ucalc.pro) and Calcapp (https://www.calcapp.net/lp/website-calculators/), that require more work to get from an Excel sheet to a web app, but get the job done with an end result that doesn't look like a spreadsheet. How does Publisheet improve on the competition?

(Full disclosure: I'm a co-founder of Calcapp.)

Re: Show HN: Publisheet – Publish Excel sheets as interactive web pages

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I was about to say the same. I'd pay for a license to use a self-hosted version.

Sheetjs.com seems in the same space and you can self host.

you need a dev to make that work. I guess OP value is "no dev needed"

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Sheetjs.com seems in the same space and you can self host.

you need a dev to make that work. I guess OP value is "no dev needed"

That's true, though the things in the demos directory would simplify that.

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I'm surprised MS Office development seems to have just...stopped. Powerpoint can't import an SVG (it turns it into a low res raster image). Powerpoint can't export SVG either, if I want to use a Powerpoint diagram in a web page. I opened a JSON file in Excel expecting to see nested values and nope, it doesn't support that file format. Office isn't even available in the Windows app store. When Microsoft's going full s…

Well everyone is using google docs/sheets/slides google slides support SVG btw https://gsuite.google.com/

Not at any of the companies I have worked for or consulted for in the past 5 years. At least at the Fortune 500 level. I love using new tools but Google sheets is nowhere near Excel for more complex projects.

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I'm surprised MS Office development seems to have just...stopped. Powerpoint can't import an SVG (it turns it into a low res raster image). Powerpoint can't export SVG either, if I want to use a Powerpoint diagram in a web page. I opened a JSON file in Excel expecting to see nested values and nope, it doesn't support that file format. Office isn't even available in the Windows app store. When Microsoft's going full s…

Uhm, I can import vector SVGs into Powerpoint (2019 or Office 365) just fine.

I can too. Then I resize them and they get blurry because it's converted them to bitmap, as mentioned in the comment you're replying to.

Powerpoint Office 365 insiders build, the latest possible public release.

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I'm surprised MS Office development seems to have just...stopped. Powerpoint can't import an SVG (it turns it into a low res raster image). Powerpoint can't export SVG either, if I want to use a Powerpoint diagram in a web page. I opened a JSON file in Excel expecting to see nested values and nope, it doesn't support that file format. Office isn't even available in the Windows app store. When Microsoft's going full s…

> ...Office seems to be stuck in 2005

That's false. Some features not available at 2005:

- 2007: Ribbon UI - PowerPivot / PowerQuery / PowerView - Integration with OneDrive (Office talks to server) - Office Online Server (Office Lite in web in cloud or self hosted) - Not a feature, but subscription model + value added services users get.

Re: Show HN: Publisheet – Publish Excel sheets as interactive web pages

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This looks sleek and well-made! However, this is a pretty crowded space. Spreadsheet Converter ( https://www.spreadsheetconverter.com ) and Spreadsheet Web ( https://www.spreadsheetweb.com ) are directly comparable and have been around for years. (Like Publisheet, Spreadsheet Converter offers an Excel add-in.) Then there are lots of web app builders, including Calculoid ( https://www.calculoid.com ), Calconic ( https…

Ooohhhhhh i really like this info.

Here is what i want, i want a cleaner way to parse a pdf into an xls or csv and be able to edit it on mobile ....

Have any good references?

Re: Show HN: Publisheet – Publish Excel sheets as interactive web pages

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Well everyone is using google docs/sheets/slides google slides support SVG btw https://gsuite.google.com/

Not at any of the companies I have worked for or consulted for in the past 5 years. At least at the Fortune 500 level. I love using new tools but Google sheets is nowhere near Excel for more complex projects.

That’s probably true, but in the most of the cases when it gets too complicataed for Google Sheets it shouldn’t be a spreadsheet at all. KPMG consultants sent us a lot of forms built in spreadsheets and that’s an abomination that should have been a simple webpage.
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