Excel toolkit. Table SHOULD be edited by advanced GUI applications, BUT converted to any other format.

Convert Excel sheet to MarkDown Table

• HyperLink cell in Excel sheet will be retained as [text](url) format
• CrossLine cell in Excel sheet will be expanded to multirow
• Empty columns on the right side will be trimed, which is detected by the first 100 rows.
• Support set the precision of decimal
• Support to set markdown table aligin
• Convert newline in cell text into <br/>
• Cross sheet Hyperlink formula support, link formula like HYPERLINK(test_sheet!C9,...) will be extract as [text](url) format automatic
• Hyperlink formula support, link formula like HYPERLINK(C9,...) will be extract as [text](url) format automatic

Usage:

• exceltk.exe -t md -xls example.xls
• exceltk.exe -t md -xls example.xls -sheet sheetname
• exceltk.exe -t md -xls example.xlsx
• exceltk.exe -t md -xls example.xlsx -sheet sheetname
• exceltk.exe -t md -p 2 -xls example.xls, where -p 2 setting the decimal precision to 2
• exceltk.exe -t md -bhead -xls example.xls, which will use the first row to replace table header, and keep the head empty, so that the table will auto response in small screen device, this is just a simply solution.
• exceltk.exe -t cm, Now you can copy sheet from excel, then paster to any editor, which will be Markdown table.
• exceltk -t md -a r -xls example.xlsx, where the -a option can be followd by a aligin character
  • -a l: aligin left
  • -a r: aligin right
  • -a c: aligin center

Convert Excel to Json

chagne the -t option to json

• exceltk.exe -t json -xls example.xls

Convert Excel to TeX

change the -t option to tex

• exceltk.exe -t tex -xls example.xls
• using -st n option to split table into multitable
• using -sn option to adjust number, for example, 1234656 will be split into 1 2 3 4 5 6, it the table width is too large, this is useful

Download:

0.1.3

• mac: https://github.com/fanfeilong/exceltk/blob/master/pub/exceltk.0.1.3.pkg
• windows: http://files.cnblogs.com/files/math/exceltk.0.1.3.zip

0.0.9 for windows

• http://fanfeilong.github.io/exceltk0.0.9.7z
• http://files.cnblogs.com/files/math/exceltk0.0.9.7z

3rd projects

ExcelTk integrated the following projects

• Excel Data Reader
• SharpZip

How to build

Build on MacOS

1. install .NET Core SDK 2.0.0-preview1-005977
2. cd to the project dir
3. run the following script step by step.

• dotnet restore src/exceltk.sln
• dotnet build src/exceltk.sln
• dotnet run --project src/Exceltk/Exceltk.csproj -t md -xls src/test/test1.xlsx

4. the dotnet restore, this will take long time to install nupack files for publish target runtime, you can comment the following config in src/Exceltk/Exceltk.csproj to ignore it.

  <PropertyGroup>
    <RuntimeIdentifiers>win-x86;osx-x64</RuntimeIdentifiers>
  </PropertyGroup>

5. run the following script to publish

dotnet publish -r osx-x64 src/exceltk.sln -c Release

Build on Windows

1. you can also build for windows with the .NET Core SDK, and publish it

dotnet publish -r win-x86 src/exceltk.sln -c Release

2. you can also build with the visual studio by load the src/exceltk_vs.sln

Build on Linux (example by ubuntu-x64)

1. install .NET Core SDK
2. cd to the project dir
3. append the ubuntu-x64 to following RuntimeIdentifiers in src/Exceltk/Exceltk.csproj. you can find other RuntimeIdentifiers at: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/rid-catalog

  <PropertyGroup>
    <RuntimeIdentifiers>win-x86;osx-x64;ubuntu-x64</RuntimeIdentifiers>
  </PropertyGroup>

4. run the following script step by step.

• dotnet restore src/exceltk.sln
• dotnet build src/exceltk.sln
• dotnet run --project src/Exceltk/Exceltk.csproj -t md -xls src/test/test1.xlsx

5. run the following script to publish

dotnet publish -r ubuntu-x64 src/exceltk.sln -c Release