Annotate in Excel

With the help of an Excel-Add-In you can manage your data, utilizing the ARC standard, directly in excel, without the necessity to upload it anywhere. The functionality the excel-add-in provides are similar to Swate and the differences will be explained in the different sections of swate. The excel-add-in will soon be published in the official Microsoft Excel-Add-Ins Store.

Installation

Section titled Installation

Currently, we recommend the installation using the excel-browser version provided by microsoft because the set up is much easier than with a local excel version.

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1. In order to annotate your data in Excel, based on the DataPlant standard, you have to download the Manifest File.

2. After downloading the manifest file, you have to upload it to Excel, by clicking on the Add-Ins button (a) in the start tab of Excel.

3. Then you click on the Additional Add-Ins button in the exanded widget

   

4. In the next step you select My Add-Ins (a) and Upload My Add-In.

   

5. Then you select choose the folder where you have downloaded the Manifest File to and select it, in order to upload it.

6. When the installation was successful, the icon of Swate, the Excel-Add-In for annotating data, should be available in the data tab.

7. When you click on the icon the sidebar of swate should appear. Its size is adaptable and when it is big enough, the quick icons of the navbar are visible.

8. When everything was successful, it should look similar to this:

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1. Follow the Microsoft official documentation for sideloading add ins Excel-Add-Ins.
2. When the installation was successful, the icon of Swate, the Excel-Add-In for annotating data, should be available in the data tab.
3. When you click on the icon the sidebar of swate should appear. Its size is adaptable and when it is big enough, the quick icons of the navbar are visible.
4. When everything was successful, it should look similar to this: