Print directly to Excel..

[shawn]

Is there a free program similar to CutePDF (allows you to print directly to
an PDF file from any program) but to print directly to an Excel file?

 

[Gord Dibben]

Print from what source to an Excel file?


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[Bob I]

print TO Excel? Sorry but Excel isn't an Image file. Now if you meant
FROM Excel TO PDF then Yes, Excel 2007 will do that, as well as the
mention CutePDF.

If on the other hand you have a PDF file and you need an Excel file
there are convertors like Nuance PDF Convertor 5.0 that will make an
Excel file and insert the text into the cells.

 

[Salmon Egg]

Is there a free program similar to CutePDF (allows you to print directly to
an PDF file from any program) but to print directly to an Excel file?

It has been a while since I have done so, but here are some clues.

Excel will read text files. If you can write them tab delimited somehow,
each tab will move you over to the next cell. A carriage return will
start a new row. It should be possible to use Word to do that. Save the
word file as a text file. Of course, you will lose some of the
formatting Word can provide. Then open the text file from Excel. Excel
might ask how the file is delimited.

Many database programs used tab delimited files.

When I wrote programs in pascal. I automatically got tabs with the write
instruction. the writeln instruction provided a carriage return to begin
a new row. I suspect that all modern programming languages, including
BASIC, have similar capability.

Bill

 

[shawn]

Yeah, our company has purchased Cogniview PDF2XL OCR. I print to PDF with
CutePDF then convert to Excel with Cogniview. I was just thinking maybe
there's a way to skip a step. Thanks.

 

[Bob I]

See the Nuance PDF convertor 5.0 then. You open PDF, Save as Excel.

 

[shawn]

Same thing Cogniview does. I was just hoping to skip that whole step of
"open in nuance and then save as excel".