What's the best way to display an excel spreadsheet with many columns in Confluence?

Question

Hi All!

I have a spreadsheet which is very long (horizontally) which people need to be able to see well. It has only one sheet.

I was going to use the excel macro but I read that it will soon be discontinued. If I just upload the spreadsheet as a file, it displays everything in "portrait" rather than "landscape", i.e. page one has the first 5 columns, then there are some cut up graphs on page 2, then some more columns, etc.

There must be a way to do this?

Cheers,

Souni

Alana Fernando · Answer

it is going to hurt. isn't it :-(

Please vote :CONFSERVER-39829 - Plans to remove the view file macros

end-of-support-announcements-for-confluence

Jonathan Smith · Answer

Ouch! Didn't know office macro was going away.... Thank you for this.

Alana Fernando · Answer

@Souni Breil,

you may consider on below add ons

* Spreadsheets for Confluence
* Excel for Confluence
* Better Excel Plugin for Jira (XLSX/XLS)

I must say that i personally evaluated Speadsheets for confluence add-on which is almost excel. but we discontinued using the plugin only because excel macro is enough for us at the moment.

But since office macro is going to go away; we are considering on switching to spreadhseets add-on.

Reference:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/office-excel-macro-375849173.html