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Excel previews, coming to Handsontable DataGrid

Spreadsheet Viewer ran on a 2020 fork of Handsontable and is no longer maintained. Handsontable DataGrid 19.0, coming soon, takes over its job on a current grid: it opens XLSX files in the browser and shows each sheet as a tab. XLSX export is available today.

  • Coming soon: XLSX import
  • Coming soon: a sheets bar
  • Available today: XLSX export
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An Excel file icon connected to a spreadsheet grid with employee, department and role columns, and a sheets bar with Employee, Clients and Products tabs

Why Spreadsheet Viewer stopped at 1.0.1

We released Spreadsheet Viewer 1.0.1 in October 2021, on a fork of Handsontable taken in 2020, before version 8.0. Rather than keep a second product running on an old core, we moved what you used it for into Handsontable DataGrid itself.

No security fixesVersion 1.0.1 gets no patches, including for issues found in the libraries it bundles.
An old grid underneathIt runs on a 2020 fork of Handsontable, which predates the TypeScript core, the theme API and the current React, Angular and Vue wrappers.
No new licensesWe no longer sell Spreadsheet Viewer. A Handsontable DataGrid license covers the same use, with a support plan.

What the viewer did, the grid takes over

XLSX export ships today; XLSX import and the sheets bar are coming with Handsontable DataGrid 19.0.

Coming soon

Every sheet one click away

A workbook with several sheets opens with a sheets bar, the way Excel shows it. Users switch between sheets without you building tabs around the grid.

Close-up of a grid's sheets bar with add and menu buttons and the Employee, Clients and Products tabs, Employee selected
Import coming soon

XLSX in, XLSX out

Load a workbook your users upload or your server sends, and Handsontable DataGrid reads it into the grid on the client. The file is never sent to a conversion service.

When a preview turns into an edit, users save the result as an XLSX file again, through the ExcelJS your app supplies.

  • Runs in the browser, with no server round trip
  • Works in React, Angular, Vue and plain JavaScript
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An Excel file flowing into a spreadsheet grid, labeled In, and back out to another Excel file, labeled Out

Spreadsheet Viewer next to Handsontable DataGrid

The viewer’s features, and what a maintained grid adds to them.

Spreadsheet Viewer compared with Handsontable DataGrid, with and without HyperFormula
Spreadsheet Viewer1.0.1, October 2021DataGridMaintainedDataGrid + HyperFormulaWith the Formulas plugin
Viewing files
Open XLSX files in the browserYesComing soonComing soon
One tab per sheetYesComing soonComing soon
Read-only displayYesYesYes
Export to XLSXNoYesYes
Working with the data
Cell editingNoYesYes
Formulas recalculated liveNoNoYes
Maintenance
Grid underneath2020 fork, pre-8.0CurrentCurrent
Security fixesNoYesYes
Support plansNoYesYes

XLSX import and the sheets bar are coming soon. Spreadsheet Viewer 1.0.1 stays available to download below, without updates.

Still running Spreadsheet Viewer?

The last release stays on GitHub for applications that already use it. It gets no updates, security fixes or support, and we do not recommend it for new projects.

  • Version 1.0.1, released October 21, 2021
  • Built on a 2020 fork of Handsontable, before 8.0
  • An SDK in one ZIP file
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Evaluate Handsontable DataGrid for free, or tell us about the integration you are moving.

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