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

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Post by dspillett »

andreyazimov wrote: post #39

Nice! Using spreadsheets as a DB are trend now. Also Spreadsheets are pretty good CMS as well, so people can use it to create websites without code. I made an app called https://Sheet2Site.com which takes your Google Sheet of items/objects and translates it into an app, with filters and images

> Using spreadsheets as a DB are trend now.

Not just a trend now, it has been a pattern for many years: if you worked in/with/for many office environments you'll be exposed to a great many "database" uses of Excel & similar and you will find features specific to such uses in spreadsheet products. Some businesses, including large investment banks, would completely grind to a halt if Excel stopped working!

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

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Post by samstave »

udayrddy wrote: post #36
samstave wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

except the last part of "edit it on mobile", you can achieve it with https://extracttable.com Feel free to direct any questions to brain@extracttable.com

Ive emailed you, let’s talk

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

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Post by moontear »

nailer wrote: post #2

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…

PowerPoint supports importing SVGs since at least 2016. I am using them constantly and do everything in SVG. Export to SVG you can’t - but online converters make that easy.

Excel Supports JSON and s bunch of other stuff via PowerQuery which is the new way to do things.

Office Development is totally fine, but I would agree with you that development of Add-Ins is slow and there aren’t many I would use.

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

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Post by udayrddy »

samstave wrote: post #41
udayrddy wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

except the last part of "edit it on mobile", you can achieve it with https://extracttable.com Feel free to direct any questions to brain@extracttable.com

Is it brain or Brian?

brain

On it, Sam.

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

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Post by lazyasciiart »

antigirl wrote: post #31
Vaslo wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Fair enough. I assumed everyone here was some sort of a dev, I haven’t installed office and refuse to install it. I just use the google services for any ancient documents clients send my way.

I'm a dev and I have Office installed. You have a lot of assumptions going on, apparently.

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

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Post by wtvanhest »

nailer wrote: post #37
smt88 wrote: post #8

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Has it stopped, or are you maybe not the target/average user? Most Office users have no idea what SVG or JSON files are or why they'd use them. My experience is that Office has prioritized usability and automating tedious tasks, like theming, creating charts, and linking data back and forth. Every major version over the last 15 years has made some large usability improvements (e.g. format painter), but perhaps you'd…

A lot of people who work with data use Excel and JSON. Not most Excel users, but about as many as who know what VLOOKUP is.

Just out of curiousity, who uses JSON in excel and why? (I work in corp finance, and use excel extensively)

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

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Post by mmatants »

samstave wrote: post #29
davidpolberger wrote: post #22

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?

At least for parsing PDF into table I had decent success with Tabula.

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

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Post by sflanagan »

udayrddy wrote: post #36
samstave wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

except the last part of "edit it on mobile", you can achieve it with https://extracttable.com Feel free to direct any questions to brain@extracttable.com

Neat! Is your code open-source? Would you like help going mobile-friendly?

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

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Post by seektable »

mac_was wrote: post #33

This looks really nice but I'd like to see a more complex example with several complex functions and updating at least 500 fields at the same time. Then we see how fast it is...

in case of complex functions / many fields it is more logical to use a database and BI tool that displays/visualizes data from this database as a report.
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