Microsoft Excel (XLSX)

FileAttachment supports the Microsoft Excel Open XML format via the file.xlsx method. This is implemented using the MIT-licensed ExcelJS library.

const workbook = FileAttachment("laser-report.xlsx").xlsx();

This returns a promise to a Workbook instance.

workbook

The workbook’s sheet names are exposed as workbook.sheetNames.

workbook.sheetNames

To load a sheet, call workbook.sheet, passing in a sheet name. You can also pass a range option to indicate which part of the sheet to materialize, such as A:J for columns A through J (inclusive) or B4:K123 for column B, row 4 through column K, row 123. The headers option indicates whether to treat the first row of the given range as column names. If the headers option is false, the default, the returned object properties will reflect the column letters.

const reports = workbook.sheet("Laser Report 2020", {range: "A:J", headers: true});

This returns an array of objects.

reports

Each object represents a row, and each object property represents a cell value. Values may be represented as numbers, strings, booleans, Date objects, or other values. Row numbers are also exposed as a non-enumerable # property to assist with recognition and range specification.

We can display these objects using Inputs.table:

Inputs.table(reports)

Or as a scatterplot using Plot.dot:

Plot.plot({
  y: {
    label: "Altitude (feet, thousands)",
    domain: [0, 100],
    transform: (y) => y / 1000,
    grid: true,
    clamp: true
  },
  marks: [
    Plot.ruleY([0]),
    Plot.dot(reports, {x: "Incident Date", y: "Altitude", r: 1, stroke: "Incident Time", tip: true})
  ]
})

Some additional details on values: dates are interpreted as UTC; formula results are included, but formula definitions ignored and formula errors are represented as NaN; hyperlinks are returned as strings, with a space between URL and text if they differ; empty rows are kept, but empty cells are skipped (row objects will lack properties for missing values).

If you’d prefer to use ExcelJS directly, you can import it like so:

import Excel from "npm:exceljs";