Excel Viewer Pro

View and edit Excel files directly in VS Code with a beautiful, Excel-like spreadsheet interface.

✨ Features

📊 View Excel Files

• Open .xlsx, .xls, and .xlsm files directly in VS Code
• Beautiful spreadsheet-style grid with Excel-like appearance
• Automatic number formatting and type detection

📑 Multiple Sheet Support

• Navigate between worksheets with tabs
• Quick switching between sheets

✏️ Cell Editing

• Double-click any cell to edit
• Formula bar for editing cell values
• Supports Enter, Tab, and Escape keyboard shortcuts
• Auto-detection of number vs text values

🔍 Search

• Press Ctrl+F to search within the current sheet
• Navigate between search results with arrow buttons
• Highlights all matches with active match indicator

📤 Export

• Export current sheet as CSV
• Export current sheet as JSON
• Choose save location

⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts

🎨 Theme Support

• Automatically adapts to VS Code themes (Light, Dark, High Contrast)
• Respects your VS Code color preferences

➕ Row & Column Management

• Insert rows above or below
• Insert columns left or right
• Right-click context menu for quick actions

📐 Column Resize

• Drag column borders to resize
• Customizable column widths

📦 Installation

1. Open VS Code
2. Go to Extensions (Ctrl+Shift+X)
3. Search for "Excel Viewer Pro"
4. Click Install

Or install from the command line:

code --install-extension youcode.excel-viewer-pro

🚀 Usage

Simply open any .xlsx, .xls, or .xlsm file in VS Code. The extension will automatically display it in a spreadsheet view.

You can also use the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) and search for:

• Excel Viewer Pro: Open Excel File - Open a file dialog to select an Excel file
• Excel Viewer Pro: Export Current Sheet as CSV
• Excel Viewer Pro: Export Current Sheet as JSON

🛠️ Requirements

• VS Code 1.80.0 or higher
• No additional software required

📋 Supported File Formats

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

📄 License

This extension is licensed under the MIT License.

🐛 Known Issues

• Very large files (>100MB) may take a moment to load
• Complex formulas are displayed as their calculated values

📝 Release Notes

1.0.0

• Initial release
• Excel file viewing with spreadsheet grid
• Cell editing support
• Multiple sheet tabs
• Search functionality
• CSV and JSON export
• Dark/Light theme support
• Column resize
• Context menu actions