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https://github.com/ivankokan/Excel2LaTeX

The Excel add-in for creating LaTeX tables
https://github.com/ivankokan/Excel2LaTeX

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The Excel add-in for creating LaTeX tables

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# Excel2LaTeX

Making tables in LaTeX can be tedious, especially if some columns are calculated.

This converter allows you to write a table in Excel instead, and export the current selection as LaTeX markup

which can be pasted into an existing LaTeX document, or exported to a file and included via the `\input` command.



Known to be compatible with Windows Excel 2000–2016 (32-bit and 64-bit) and Mac Excel 2004, 2011, and 2016.

May also be compatible with other versions that support `.xla` add-ins. Does not work on LibreOffice Calc.



![Excel and Excel2LaTeX comparison](https://i.imgur.com/UNKCihT.png)



## Features

Most Excel formatting is supported.

 * Bold and italic (if applied to the whole cell)

 * Left, right, center, and general alignment (per-cell or per-column)

 * Vertical and horizontal borders (per-cell or per-column, single or double)

 * Font color (using the `xcolor` package)

 * Fill color (using the `colortbl` package)

 * Rotation (using the `rotating` package)

 * Merged cells (using the `multirow` package, if needed)

 * Can convert `\`, `$`, `_`, `^`, `%`, `&`, and `#` to appropriate macros, or leave them in-place

 * Supports `booktabs` package

 * Uses `bigstrut` package when `booktabs` is not available

 * Makes standard LaTeX `tabular` environment

 * Can surround `tabular` environment with `table` environment template

 * Copy output to clipboard or export to a `.tex` file for inclusion using `\include`

 * Save table specifications to your Excel worksheet, then export all tables at once



## Using

Just open the file Excel2LaTeX.xla in Excel. Then you will have two additional 

menu items in your **Tools** menu and a new toolbar with two buttons on it. For 

Excel 2007 and later, you will have two new buttons in the **Add-Ins** ribbon. If 

you plan to use the program frequently, you can save it in your addin directory 

and add it with **Tools**→**Add-Ins**. This way it will be loaded whenever Excel is 

opened.



Select the table to convert and hit the button **Convert Table to LaTeX**. You 

will be given the option to save the result to a `.tex` file, or send it to the clipboard 

(so you can paste it into your LaTeX editor). Hit the **Store** button to store the 

current settings so you can **Load** them later or **Export All** to files.



![Excel2LaTeX interface](https://i.imgur.com/EK88upo.png)



## Contributing

The development repository and the bug tracker for this package are hosted on

[GitHub](https://github.com/krlmlr/Excel2LaTeX). To work with the project, you

will require chelh's [VBA Sync Tool](https://github.com/chelh/VBASync). 



## License

Copyright © 1996–2017 Chelsea Hughes, Kirill Müller, Andrew Hawryluk,

Germán Riaño, and Joachim Marder.



This work is distributed under the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3

or later, available at http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt



Chelsea Hughes currently maintains this project (comprising `Excel2LaTeX.xla`

and `README.md`) and will receive error reports at the project GitHub page

(see **Contributing** above).