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File Converter for Microsoft Excel, Word

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File Converter for Microsoft Excel, Word

by YouTube

Activity

224

Summary

This custom activity converts Excel and Word files using the COM Interop library.

Overview

It receives as parameters the file path of the original file, the path of the folder where the new file should be created and the name of the new converted file.

Currently, the package has the following activities:

Convert DOC To DOCX
Convert DOCX To DOC
Convert Word To PDF
Convert XLS To XLSX
Convert XLSX To XLS

NOTE: Installation Guidelines for Custom Activities can be found here.

Features

By converting the files to a different format we can reduce their size making them easier to store/send as attachments/process. (XLS => XLSX; DOC =>DOCX) We increase the number of options we have for processing the file (XLS => XLSX; DOC =>DOCX - we can process them by reading the xml files inside the resulting docx;xlsx files) We make them readable without having to have office (WORD => PDF) We can make them readable as plain text (XLSX => XLS; DOCX => DOC)

Additional Information

Dependencies

https://gallery.uipath.com/packages/Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel/ Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel (>= 15.0.4795.1000) https://gallery.uipath.com/packages/Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word/ Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word (>= 15.0.4797.1003)

Code Language

Visual Basic

Runtime

Windows Legacy (.Net Framework 4.6.1)

Publisher

YouTube

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