Display an Excel File

brightsign does not support excel files natively however, you can either export an excel worksheet as html, or display excel files as images the instructions for both scenarios are below export an excel file as html go to file > save as in excel in the save as type list, select htm, html under save , choose selection sheet and click publish the publish as web page window will open select the sheet(s) you wish to publish use the browse button to find and select your server (in the example screenshot, the html file is being placed into a public dropbox folder) check the autorepublish web page box click publish the first time you save the workbook again, you will see the following window select the enable autorepublish feature to ensure that the worksheet is automatically updated whenever a change is made to the document step5 png display image or text of an excel file you can convert excel files to image or text files and then display them using the player there are many different applications that can perform this conversion (here's one example http //www print driver com/howto/convert excel to jpeg html ) the easiest way to convert an excel sheet is to take a screenshot of it and save it as image file check image formats docid\ gzcaqroor8 zarnrepkn1 to ensure the saved images will display successfully on the player depending on how complicated the spreadsheet is, you can recreate the fields and layout using the live text state docid\ zmrkctvfwvli8u1z5frvk in brightauthor\ connected or the live text docid\ azdujh1wtcmxrp 0oix7 feature in {{brightauthor classic}}