Poster for "Excel Archival Tool: Automating the Spreadsheet Conversion Process"
2015
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Poster for "Excel Archival Tool: Automating the Spreadsheet Conversion Process"
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2015
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This poster presents the Excel Archival Tool, a script that was created to programmatically convert Microsoft Excel files into open source formats suitable for long-term archival. This is accomplished by using Visual Basic Script to convert Excel workbooks (.xls and .xlsx) into comma-separated value files (.csv), while also extracting charts/figures (in .png images), cell formulas (in .txt files), and formatting/styling information (in HTML snapshots). This tool is most useful for large Excel data sets that would otherwise require large amounts of tedious work to convert manually.
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Presented at the 2015 Research Data Access and Preservation Summit held April 23, 2015 in Minneapolis, MN.
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McGrory, John. (2015). Poster for "Excel Archival Tool: Automating the Spreadsheet Conversion Process". Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/171966.
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