Thanks so much! I also like the option of looking at both formats. We have the work distributed here between staff, and this will be very helpful!

Éva

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Thank you everyone for your feedback so far, it is encouraging. As we get this ready to send out to everyone (that wants it), we imagine we will need to make tweaks to the programming to work out any kinks that we haven’t come across yet or add in new functionality that could further reduce the time spent at your end.

Also, since this is a conversion program from existing HTM reports, if you do wish to see both sets of reports (HTM + XLS), we are fairly certain we can make that happen. As I think about it, what will probably happen is we would generate one set of HTM reports and another corresponding set of XLS reports (for those HTM reports that we can convert, that is). That way, you still have the option to look at the HTM report when necessary.

Our hope is to get this in place before the end of October, so we will keep you posted on our progress towards that goal.

Nate Cothran

Backstage Library Works

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I completely agree with Linda--thanks so much! And kudos to Ted who's procedure had been critical to my work for years.

--Martha

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On Oct 8, 2012, at 9:48 AM, Linda Ballinger <ballingerl@newberry.org> wrote:

This is excellent news! Thank you for working on this. We've used Ted Waller's procedures for converting the reports to Excel, which he posted on this list a few years ago. Being able to go directly to Excel files would be such a time saver.

Linda
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Linda Ballinger
Principal Cataloging Librarian
Newberry Library
Chicago, IL
ballingerl@newberry.org

Nate Cothran wrote:

Several of our clients have requested whether it was possible to deliver our reports in Excel format (XLS) instead of HTM like we do currently. While HTM allows for

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If this is something that you would be interested in having us start doing for your reports, please let us know. We don’t think we are very far off from being able to do this, but we did want to let you know one of the things we have been working on.

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