Sheets Preview: Offline Spreadsheet Preview & Basic Editing Tool
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Offline spreadsheet preview. Open binary files like XLS (Microsoft Excel 95/97), XLSX, ODS (OpenOffice) directly with this JavaScript app. Allows basic editing and copy&paste to Google Sheets / Docs or a desktop software.
Powered by open-source components Handsontable (http://handsontable.com/) & SheetJS / js-xlsx (http://www.sheetjs.com/).
Supported formats: Microsoft Excel 5.0/95 BIFF5/CDF V2 Document, Excel 97-2004 BIFF8, Excel 2003-2004 XML Format (XML SpreadsheetML), Excel 2007+ Binary Format (XLSB), Excel 2007+ XML Formats (XLSX/XLSM) and OpenDocument Spreadsheet (ODS).
This is open-source project. Source code on GitHub: https://github.com/klokantech/sheets-preview
(C) Copyright 2016 Klokan Technologies GmbH (copyright must be preserved in forks)
User reviews
- Does not work on Chromebook
- Does not open ODS files
- Non-functional; many users report it does nothing
- Wasted time downloading it
- Perceived as a scam or potentially harmful
- Does not work
- Won't open documents
- Does nothing or is non-functional
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Sheets Preview requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Sheets Preview has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.