Excel format

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Excel format

Easy Data Transform can input from and output to Excel ".xlsx" and ".xls" format files, even if you don't have Excel installed.

 

Excel format is the native format of the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet application. It is commonly used for exchanging tabular data.

 

You can specify the sheet name when inputting or output Excel files using square brackets, e.g. MySpreadsheet.xlsx[Sheet1] means sheet Sheet1 of file MySpreadsheet.xlsx.

 

Note that:

Excel .xlsx files are limited to 1,048,576 rows and 16,384 columns.

Excel .xls files are limited to 65,536 rows and 256 columns.

Date values are input using ISO date format YYYY-MM-DD, regardless of your locale.

Datetime values are input using ISO date format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS, regardless of your locale.

The following characters are not allowed in sheet names: \ / * [ ] : ?