Welcome to the SpreadsheetConverter blog!
This is our informal, sort-of-quarterly blog, where we let you know what's new in the world of SpreadsheetConverter and its website. This is also where we announce new versions, beta tests and upcoming features.
If you have questions, suggestions or feature requests, don't hesitate to contact our sales department. We appreciate your feedback.
The shutdown of the JotForm site proves the benefit of hosting your own web forms
Feb 17, 2012: For the electronic forms that run your business, it's probably not such a good idea to use a hosted forms service like JotForm. Just ask the 700,000 users of JotForm who just lost access to all their two million web forms for two days. Using an external service provider exposes you to unpredictable shutdowns. more...
Version 6 is both faster and easier to use
Feb 1, 2012: We recently made version 6 of SpreadsheetConverter available on the website. A new user interface makes it much easier to insert widgets and adjust their properties. The new version also allows you to generate web pages for different environments. more...
SpreadsheetConverter iPhone/Android enters beta test
June 4, 2011: SpreadsheetConverter iPhone/Android is now in public beta test. Show instant quotes on iPhone or Android smartphones. Provide powerful mobile data entry services, mobile form applications or web calculators that work even when the smartphone is offline. more...
New graphical widgets for web forms in Microsoft servers
March 16, 2011: Creating calculating web forms for Microsoft ASP.NET pages just became a lot easier. This new tool version adds many graphical web widgets that can make your smart web forms even smarter. more...
Streamlined web forms save manual labor
December 29, 2010: When you create a web form with Excel, you get high-quality responses with all required information present and correct. With little training, any Excel user can build advanced graphical web forms that require much less manual labor to process. more...
Serve calculating forms from Windows servers
September 13, 2010: What does it take to create an interactive web form that reads data off a Windows server? Well, if you can create a prototype in Excel, SpreadsheetConverter ASP.Net version 5 converts your prototype into a full-fledged Windows server application. more...
Flash examples show strong potential
June 4, 2010: We've created new versions of most of our examples to demonstrate the power of the latest member of the family, SpreadsheetConverter Flash. The results are simply stunning. Generating complex Flash-based web forms and calculators from Excel prototypes can turn out to be the most important market for this stable and mature product so far. more...
Have a look at our new useful examples!
April 15, 2010: SpreadsheetConverter can publish almost any Excel spreadsheet on the web. We have added several new useful spreadsheets to our Examples library, both simple and advanced. Have a look and tell us what you think. more...
First beta of SpreadsheetConverter Flash released
February 15, 2010: We're proud to introduce our new SpreadsheetConverter Flash product. It converts an Excel spreadsheet to a single Adobe Flash file, perfect for integration with your own web site. Download the beta and see it in action! more...
Visit our showcase of customer achievements
November 2, 2009: We've been so impressed by what our customers accomplish with SpreadsheetConverter. To reward your creativity, we recently opened a showcase of customer achievements. Have a look at what people like yourself are doing with SpreadsheetConverter. You'll certainly be impressed, but we hope you'll also be inspired! more...
SpreadsheetConverter HTML version 5 is released
October 30, 2009: The first official version of SpreadsheetConverter HTML version 5 is now available for download in both Standard and Professional editions. The upgrade costs $50 per license and can be ordered now. For only $120 more, users of the Standard edition also get the additional features of the Professional edition. more...
Try the new Advanced Submit Service
October 20, 2009: We were always among the best when it came to supporting Excel forms. With the Advanced Submit Service, we send you not only the plain contents of a form, but the whole form exactly as it looked on the server when the visitor entered data into it. You can also have the Advanced Submit Service store submitted forms on our server until you download them all at once in the file format of your choice. more...
Version 5 is in beta test
September 14, 2009: SpreadsheetConverter version 5 adds many new user interface features like calendars, sliders and ratings. We have improved the charts considerably, not to mention the enhanced submit process with support for hidden and required fields, built-in spam protection and much more. more...
Upgrade to 4.4 if you use charts
August 20, 2009: Under certain conditions, charts converted by SpreadsheetConverter may stop working. An error message says "Can't show chart without Flash Player 6 or later" also for users with later versions of the Flash player installed. The simplest solution is to upgrade to version 4.4 or higher and update your web pages. more...
Search the best Excel sites from our website
July 14, 2009: Getting too many hits when using the normal search engines? Try our specialized search engine, powered by Google. It will only search in high-quality Excel sites, giving you much better search results than anywhere else. more...
Follow us on Twitter!
March 15, 2009: We've made it even easier to see what's new over here. If Twitter is one of your natural hang-outs, join us there. more...
