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Gif2xlsx – Convert GIFs to Excel files

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Re: Gif2xlsx – Convert GIFs to Excel files

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Post by vmednis »

lnyng wrote: post #5

This is actually exactly 1 year ago, and the guy spent two days finishing the project, very well done! BTW I was assuming that the program can somehow produce animating Excel file from gifs. It will be cool if it works that way.

I wonder if you could do that with macros.

Re: Gif2xlsx – Convert GIFs to Excel files

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Post by tsukurimashou »

lnyng wrote: post #5

This is actually exactly 1 year ago, and the guy spent two days finishing the project, very well done! BTW I was assuming that the program can somehow produce animating Excel file from gifs. It will be cool if it works that way.

From the readme:

>Animated GIFs are converted on a one-frame-per-worksheet basis, so you have to step through the worksheets to animate them. I was originally intending using conditional formatting and iterative calc to display these, but unfortunately the Excel team* seem to have single-threaded the calculation of conditional formatting and it was far too slow to render.

* I used to work on the Excel team so one could argue that this is partly my fault.

Re: Gif2xlsx – Convert GIFs to Excel files

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Post by tbbttbbt »

> Usage:

> gif2xlsx myfile.gif

> Output will be saved as out.xlsx in current folder. If there is any output. If not you can have a full refund.

Yep definetly my kind of dev guy.

I also do stuff like that, sometimes I take it further

like in the help description: http://justpic.info/images4/1100/usage_king.png

Re: Gif2xlsx – Convert GIFs to Excel files

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Post by m0zg »

This aspect of many Microsoft products is pretty under-appreciated. Many of them are immensely programmable from the outside, and expose pretty decent object models on top of which to write programs. First money I ever made with my coding was writing VBA in MS Access for some warehouse which wanted to keep track of tens of thousands of different train parts. It was so easy I couldn't believe how much I got paid.

Re: Gif2xlsx – Convert GIFs to Excel files

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Post by SiempreViernes »

cosmie wrote: post #2

> Why is your release binary built in debug mode? > Be grateful for what you have. I loved the FAQ overall. But something about this at the end made me bust out laughing.

No answer about why the sample picture isn't saved as a (static) gif though.

Re: Gif2xlsx – Convert GIFs to Excel files

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Post by garyclarke27 »

Cute, Confirms my experience though. Conditional Formatting in Excel is a nightmare, they got me excited at first, but I wasted so much time and got so frustrated with them - I gave up and have never used them since. As the article says performance is abysmal in large spreadsheets, also they do not play well with Excel tables, (which I use a lot) you end up with thousands of CF formulas in tables, they keep breeding and mutating and you cant stop them!
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