SpreadsheetConverter 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 Microsoft Frontpage, ASP.NET 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 support department and they will do their best to get you started.
If you're looking for examples on how to solve various business problems with SpreadsheetConverter, visit our Examples library.
Creating a web page in minutes! (Flash movie)
If you have a pop-up block, hold down CTRL while clicking on the play-demo button.
Creating a simple calculator
Starting with a simple Excel spreadsheet, easily make a web page that looks the same and calculates the same.
Creating an online survey
This turial show 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 url, that can be used to open a shopping cart at Paypal. This tutorial shows you how to open a PayPal payment form.
Using Frontpage extensions for form submissions
Instead of using our built-in submit support, you can use the Frontpage Extensions (a Microsoft developed API and supported by Apache on Linux.)
Here is a tutorial describing how to add a submit button for the Frontpage extensions.
There is also a Flash movie showing how to save forms data into an Access database using the Frontpage extensions.
If you do not want to use the Frontpage Extensions, the Free Submit Service provided with SpreadsheetConverter allows you to send all completed forms to your Inbox. If you upgrade to the Advanced Submit Service, we store the submitted form data into a database on our server. You can later retrieve your form data as reports in HTML and Excel format.
Tutorials for programmers
Initializing cell values from dynamic data
This is a tutorial on how you can initialize cell values used by the calculator with dynamic data on a server. You need some basic programmer's skills to do this and a suitable web server technology, for example Classic ASP or PHP.
Storing form values in a database
You want to store the values from your ASP.NET form into a database and repopopulate the form when the user returns back.
This tutorial shows how you can connect an ASP.NET form created with SpreadsheetConverter to a database. It is very easy if you know some programming and Visual Studio.
