Tutorials

Explore our tutorials on how to use SpreadsheetConverter. Learn how to build live web pages from Excel spreadsheets, and create online forms that integrate with your web server or our form-to-Inbox services.

These tutorials are mainly intended to help new users to get started with the product. If you have any questions that aren’t covered by the tutorials, you’re always welcome to contact our Help Desk and they will do their best to get you started.

If you’re looking for examples of how to solve various business problems with SpreadsheetConverter, visit our Examples library.

General spreadsheet design guide

Before you take part of the tutorials, you may want to learn how to design web calculators for a global, mobile audience.

Tutorials for users

Basic tutorials

Create a simple sales tax calculator

Starting with a simple Excel spreadsheet, it’s easy to create a simple sales tax calculator web page that looks the same and calculates the same as the spreadsheet. We’ll then publish the web page on the web and add the calculator to an existing web page in WordPress.

Create your first online form

Follow these simple step to create your first online form with Excel, enter values into it and have it arrive in your own e-mail Inbox.

Graphical widgets make your web calculator easier to use

For some data types, using a graphical widget is so much easier than just entering numbers and letters. Instead of “Yes”, tick a checkbox. Choose from a list of valid choices in a drop-down menu. Use calendars to pick a date. Let us show you how graphical widgets make your web calculator easier to use.

Working with image widgets and placeholders

Some widgets generate images, like maps or barcodes. In this tutorial, a form contain a country flag that changes when a new country is selected. Learn how to work with some of the more advanced widgets like Link Image and Dynamic Dropdown in this tutorial about a simple membership application form.

Use a live chart with your web calculator

The best way to visualize data is often with a chart. This tutorial shows you how to use a chart with your web calculator. The live chart in the web page updates automatically when the values in the data table are changed.

Create a theme and apply it to your calculator

You can change the visual appearance of your calculator in several ways. If you apply colors to text or backgrounds in Excel, they will also be used for the corresponding objects in the converted web page. For other things, you need to create a theme using Theme Designer. This tutorial shows you how to work with web page layout using both theme and Excel formatting.

Advanced tutorials

Upload a converted calculator or form to a web server

There are several ways to upload files to web servers. One of the most common is the File Transfer Protocol, FTP. In this tutorial, we use FTP to publish a converted Excel spreadsheet on a web server.

Creating a shared sign-up list for an event

The contents of an online form can be saved from one visit to the next. A simple online sign-up list makes it easy to see the names of all the people that have previously signed up for an event. Learn how in the shared sign-up list tutorial.

Create Android apps with Excel and AppsGeyser

Once you convert a calculator or form to Android format, you can make an app of it that you can distribute and perhaps even sell. Here are the steps required to create Android apps with Excel and AppsGeyser.

Create an online survey and analyze the responses

This tutorial shows you how to create an online survey using SpreadsheetConverter to HTML.

Note that the tutorial uses the Microsoft Frontpage Extensions to transfer form contents to the web server, whereas the recent versions of SpreadsheetConverter now have built-in support for forms handling.

Order using Paypal

You can use HYPERLINK to build a link, that can be used to open a shopping cart for Paypal. This tutorial shows you how to open a PayPal payment form.