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Free Excel Viewer

Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2019 8:30 pm
by Nh
Home: https://www.pdfexcelconverter.com/free- ... iewer.html
Portable version: https://www.pdfexcelconverter.com/down/ ... viewer.zip

Pros:
- besides of viewing, it can also edit static values in cells
- exporting to other formats
- very lightweight

Cons:
- ridiculous - you can write the simplest =SUM(A1:A8) and get the right results, but if you do not write it uppercase you get nothing
- ridiculous again - 100 columns * 200 rows
- no settings are saved (as far as I know)

???:
- I have not checked the registry

Re: Free Excel Viewer

Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2019 10:36 am
by webfork
I saw this recently, thanks for posting about it.
Cons:- ridiculous again - 100 columns * 200 rows
Do you mean it's limited to 100 columns and 200 rows? I didn't see that limit in testing.

The program isn't as good as many other free programs, but it's very fast only about 13 megs so it might be worth your time. I'd still recommend Gnumeric or LibreOffice Calc before this program, it's dramatically smaller and the available font tools, cell border, and other formatting tools were very good.

Other notes:

* Functions were fairly limited, but with a name like "viewer" I'm not surprised
* Seems like it has good input and output file support: import XLS, XLSX, XLSB, CSV, ODS, RGF, XLS, output to PDF, SVG, ODS, XML, HTML, and CSV. (I didn't test all of these.)
* Excel support was just okay, seemed to have difficulty with any kind of forumulas, and would throw an error message. Pasted images seemed okay but objects or any drawing elements rendered poorly