With the Excel table input plugin it is possible to create forrest tables directly from Excel XML output. Excel sheets will be translated into sections, and each sheet will generate a table. Only simple tables are supported (by now). Formatting is not transferred to forrest but some calculations are.

Needs Excel 2003 to save the content as XML.

The How-to section describes step by step how to create and include an Excel table in forrest.

For implemenation details see resources/stylesheets/table-to-document.xsl

The samples section contains the following examples:

• Simple table: Shows the basic features.
• Table with figure: Shows how to embedd a figure with the table plus additional text.
• Color table: Specialized table to highlight cells in the color specified.