Comments on: Four ways to convert Excel tables to LaTeX

By: sam

sam — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 02:26:35 +0000

LaTable works superbly well! Thank you so much!!

By: Kent

Kent — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:31:28 +0000

Check out EditGrid. It’s an online spreadsheet program that exports to .tex

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:01:49 +0000

Me again... have you checked on this site, if something applies to your case?

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:52:23 +0000

Hi Kuntoro,

It could be, that there are too many ‘&’s in a row of the table. Or that there isn’t a column format at the beginning of the table (\begin{table}{ll}).
Have you tried to zero in on the error by creating a minimal example?

Greetings,
Alex

By: Kuntoro Kuntoro

Kuntoro Kuntoro — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 07:42:07 +0000

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen :
I exported table created by SPSS to excel then I converted ti Latex document. The table looks good ( in PDF) but there is an error message:
! Extra alignment tab has been changed to \cr
\endtemplate.
How can I remove the error ?
Thank you

K. Kuntoro

By: sammy

sammy — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 20:53:33 +0000

just a possible solution for those who have error message”compile error: cannot find project or library”.
1) open an application, then press ALT+F11 to VBA editor
2)open tool\reference, check if ref edit is missing
3)if missing, go the install folder, reload it.
4)open a new application, now excel2latex should be working.

ref: http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/error-loading-dll-missing-ref-edit-control-t3782107.html

cheers,
sammy

By: Desh Deepak

Desh Deepak — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:22:48 +0000

Hi, The LaTable really works and I think it is the easiest way to do this work. 1-Just google to download the “LaTable download”
2-Download the zip file and unzip it.
3-Go to the LaTable folder.
4.DOuble click on the LaTable.exe.
5. Copy your table from the excel file.
6.Don’t Don’t Don’t use ctrl+V……..use the edit option from the Latable window and click on the paste.
7.Do your formatting as you wish on the LaTable file.
8. Then go to edit option again and copy it by the option “copy as Latec code” and paste it to the latex file. Also write \begin{table} & \end{table}….before and after the pasted code.{Incase}
9. It took 1 min to write the processor but it will not take more than 5 secs to generate the table in latex.

Cheers

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 11 May 2011 09:17:48 +0000

Hi Ennis,

which Excel version are you using?

For Excel 2007 I found a workaround to access the add-in without using the add-in tab. Try to use the Quick Access Toolbar.
Go to ‘Excel options | Customize’. In the pull down menu for ‘Choose commands from:’ select ‘All Commands’.
In the list select ‘Custom Toolbars’ and then click ‘Add >>’.
When closing the menu there SHOULD be a further button on your QAT. When you click it, there SHOULD be the Excel2Latex button.

All without any guarantees. It works for me, but I got the Add in tab too

This workaround is derived from here.

Good Luck,
Alex

By: Ennis

Ennis — Tue, 10 May 2011 17:43:11 +0000

Am still having trouble with it myself. I have authorized macros to run, and I have loaded the file using Excel Options | Manage | Add-ins … and it says it is loaded.

However, I do not get any menu tab which says “Add-ins” and so I don’t have access to the functionality.

Any suggestions?

By: A.D.

A.D. — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:24:33 +0000

Hi Alex,

I’ve solved the problem. I changed the folder of the xla file and updated it three times : ) Now it works fine. Although the conversion is not always satisfactory.

Best,
A.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:18:32 +0000

Hi A.D., have you activated Macros in Excel? Excel 2003 Excel 2007 I'm too lazy to look for the links to other Excel versions. Greetings, Alex

By: A.D.

A.D. — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 03:05:17 +0000

Hi,

I tried all above and I see the convert button. But when I click it says cannot run the macro? Any solutions?

Best regards,
A.D

By: joe zou

joe zou — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:10:44 +0000

I am using Excel2Latex v3.0, I can save the selected excel tables to a .tex file, but I used “import content” in Scientific Work Place to import in the saved .tex file into a Beamer file. I was prompted “The marker ‘tab:addlabel’ occurs more than once in the document’.

When I typeset, preview pdf file, there was a problem and it cannot proceed.
I used Excel 2007.

Could anyone kindly tell me how to solve the problem?
Many thanks in advance

By: Yubaraj

Yubaraj — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:46:46 +0000

Yes, you can export tables from excel to LaTeX. Previously I had used excel2latex addon of excel to import selected tables in latex but I had to modify the LaTeX codes according to my requirement.

Later, I accidentally came to know a beautiful GUI tool for importing excel tables to LaTeX and modifying the table according to the requirement in a What You See Is What You Get fashion. The tool is LaTable. Just simply select your excel table and paste it to LaTable. Then modify the table like bordering cell, merging horizontal cells, text alignment etc and then copy LaTeX code for table into your LaTeX editor. The details about it is given in my blog with pictures as well.
Here’s the link
http://zigzag00.blogspot.com/2010/08/latable-easy-way-to-write-tables-in.html

I think LaTable is the best tool for you.

With best regards,
Yubaraj

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:43:25 +0000

@rune
The simplest solution, though not temporary, would be to:
Use ’search & replace’ ([CTRL]+H) and replace ‘=’ with ”=’ (add an apostrophe in front of the = ).
But this will mess up your calculations since Excel will think that there is now only text…

By: rune

rune — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:30:47 +0000

I’m using Excel2Latex with Excel 2007. It works fine, but I need to not only export the data, but clearify the commands used in Excel. For this, I would like to include coloumn and row headings, and export the cells as they are when the “show formulas” option is used. I can’t find an easy way to do this. Anybody know one?

By: Martijn

Martijn — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:48:37 +0000

Thanks! I tried Ernest’s solution by downloading the Excel2LaTeX.xla and ‘adding in’ in Excel 2007 and it worked.

Direct download link for the xla file: http://mirror.ctan.org/support/excel2latex/Excel2LaTeX.xla

By: S___

S___ — Wed, 05 May 2010 11:12:28 +0000

Alex is right, it helped! Thank you a lot!! Just remove the “missing” items from the list, as said in the link (provided by Alex).

By: thetrystero

thetrystero — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:33:13 +0000

unfortunately, mac office does not support visual basic macros. i use the built-in concatenate function in excel. requires a few keystrokes, but this is the quickest i’ve found.

=A1&” & “A2&”\\”

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:15:20 +0000

I tried the ’solution’ from here:

http://www.idautomation.com/kb/vba-compile-error.html

Just remove the link to the missing package and it started working (on a little test-table).
Now I have to test it on bigger and more complex ones but for now it is working.

Oh, I am using win7 and excel2007 and excel2latex 2.1

Hope it helps anyone here.

By: JL

JL — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:08:57 +0000

Hi,
For myself, having tried many aspects of excel2latex, and seeing that once a table is coded in Latex, it is very difficult to modify, I decided to do the following: I make a table in Excel, and format it the way I like, and then I just print it as a pdf file with pdf995, and then I add it to my Latex document as if it were a picture. Looks a bit less neat than real Latex tables though, but it’s the easiest way to do it I find.
Jeremie

By: Ernest

Ernest — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:38:45 +0000

I just installed it to Excel 2007. Just put the ‘.xla’ file in any folder preferably the add-in folder under “C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Microsoft\AddIns\” then open up Excel > Office Button > Excel Options > Add-ins > Go and select it from the menu that appears, or browse to the folder where you put it. That should give you a button under Add-ins in Excel which works fine. At least it works for me. I am running Win XP.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:12:28 +0000

Anyone have any ideas on how to get excel2latex running on excel 2007? I’m having the same issue — installing it results in an icon appearing under ad-ins, but simply pressing it opens up a visual basics sheet or something with the compile error. Is there a step we are just missing?

By: ehud

ehud — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:36:28 +0000

Hi
I have the same problem getting the error: “compile error: cannot find project or library”. A visual basic screen is opened and the word “CurDir” is highlighted in the code.

By: Homecore

Homecore — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:32:41 +0000

Did you guys do anything in particular? In which folder did you place the .xla file, for example? And did you try to convert from xls or xlsx files? Im’ getting a visual basic error: “compile error: cannot find project or library”. A visual basic screen is opened and the word “CurDir” is highlighted in the code. Did you guys have this problem?
Thanks!

By: Just another user

Just another user — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:05:05 +0000

Works on Excel 2007 for me too. Just did exactly as Yun, and works like a charm!

By: Yun

Yun — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:46:37 +0000

It works on Excel 2007 for me. After running the .xla file, the convert function can be found under the ‘Add-Ins’ tab, “Custom toolbars”.

By: Matt Kizerian

Matt Kizerian — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:58:21 +0000

If you're open to jumping over to the OpenOffice side of the fence, at least to export your data, you might try the calc2latex macro from the OpenOffice website here. It works very nicely and gives you basic formatting options.

By: Ian Atkin

Ian Atkin — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:12:07 +0000

Hi there

The best solution I’ve found so far is to copy the table to Gnumeric and then save the file as a .tex table fragment, works a treat!

Ian

By: John Johnson

John Johnson — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:13:28 +0000

Save the table as a .csv and write a perl script to do the conversion?