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I have some Excel files containing indexes that I'd like to post to the forum. Does anyone have a suggestion as to how to do this? The extension .xlsx is not among those permitted to be posted here.
However, the whole point of using Excel is to allow people to easily search through the indexes. There are a couple of hundred sheets, each with a list of all births, marriages, or deaths in one town in a given year.
I'm thinking of either posting them on a free file server website, or posting them to the Italian Citizenship Message Board, and adding a link here.
Carubia, I was also going to suggest converting to a PDF. You can still search a PDF by holding down Ctrl and pressing "f". A little dialogue box comes up and you type in the name you are looking for. I use this all the time on my PDF documents.
Angela
The sheet names don't show up when I convert the entire book to a pdf, so you can't tell what years the records are for. Moreover, the sheets are too wide and the column widths are not always wide enough. I would have to do a lot of work to get this into a format where it could be viewed as a pdf where you could see all the information and know what you were looking at. And if that wasn't bad enough, converting to a pdf makes the files 10 times larger, so they'd have to be broken down into much smaller files first.
It will be much easier to just put the Excel files somewhere else and provide a link.
Well, it sounds like you know what you are doing there. All the best with that and I am sure there will be many people appreciative of all your efforts.
Angela:-)
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