How would I go about converting an Excel file to be viewed by the forum?

[darkrose50]

How would I go about converting an Excel file to be viewed by the forum?

[The_Grand_User]

I would use Microsoft's Skydrive, which anyone with a Live account should have, and make it a public document, then share the link here.

[foproy]

or share it on google docs. and post the link here.

[Blankbeard]

A few of our members seem to have difficulty viewing external files.  If you want to make a table on the forum out of the file, I've used the following procedure.

1) Export the file to .csv
2) Open the file in a text editor
3) Search and replace commas with the string:

Code:

[/td][td]

4) At the end of each line add the following:

Code:

[/td][/tr][tr]

(You might be able to do a search and replace on the line feeds depending on the editor)
5) Add the following before the first line:

Code:

[table][tr]

6) Add the following after the last line:

Code:

[/tr][/table]

And then copy and paste the whole thing in the forums.  Be sure to use the preview!  The big disadvantage is as far as I know, there isn't an easy way to draw separators between the cells. You can fake separators in step 3 with code like

Code:

[/td][td]|[/td][td]

inserting whatever you like in the middle.

[Krensky]

Or take the csv file and visit: http://charles-reace.com/Kindle_Hacks/csv2bbcode/

[LordKruelos]

Or take the csv file and visit: http://charles-reace.com/Kindle_Hacks/csv2bbcode/

Bookmarked. Thank you sir.

For ease of use, I mostly use google docs, published to the web.