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Entries Tagged ‘excel’

Online Tool to Convert .ICS file to Excel/CSV

I couldn’t find a decent way online to convert ICS files into an Excel type format for easy manipulation, or adding to documents etc.  So I’ve built a simple one that is now available online: http://csv2sql.evandavey.com/ical2csv.php This takes an iCal URL and provides you with a CSV file as a download.  Makes it much easier [...]

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How-To: Flip Rows/Columns in Excel

This is really easy, but something I never knew until I just tried this: Copy the cells you want to flip Right-Click “Paste Special” Tick the Transpose checkbox You’re done! Best Excel trick ever!

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How-To: Read an Excel (.xls) file with Perl

I’ve been working on a data import recently that required me to pull in the contents of a folder full of excel documents, all with the same structure containing data that needed to be collated into a single file.  There really isn’t an easy way to read Excel (xls files) in PHP so I’ve reverted [...]

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