Do you know about Excel Interactive View?

Did you know about this latest feature from Microsoft that allows you to view data on the internet on Excel? On the internet you might see tables in plain HTML format sometimes. This new feature, a button actually, makes those dull and boring tables better by allowing you to view them in Excel. This feature works similar to the ‘like’ button of Facebook.

Yes, this button magically transforms the data that you view on the internet into something that you can work on, in Excel. With this button, you can ‘interact’ with the data. You can create filters for the data, sort it, or create charts. For people who do a lot of research work, this feature is a blessing in disguise. To have this feature though, you need to follow a procedure and add a HTML line to the code and also add JavaScript tag on the page.

To use this button on your website, visit the website excelmashup.com to understand how you can do it. Well, allow us to tell you how to do it, in simple words anyway. Once you go visit the website, on your left you would see a column where you’d find the option ‘Add the Button’. Click that option and you’d be taken to a page where you would have to generate the code that you could add to your website.

You need to select the kind of button you want on your website and then choose the title that would be displayed in the interactive view. Once you choose the name, you would be required to give the name of the company. This would allow users to know about you when they download data from your website. Once you’re done with that, you need to select the option ‘Generate Code’ to actually generate the code.

You need to add this code to your website and then a button would appear on the screen which would allow users to view the tables that are present in the HTML format in Excel.