t-templatedxlstocsv.html

---
short: t-templatedxlstocsv
type: transformer
color: indigo
title: Templated XLS to CSV
description: Transforms Excel files to CSV files using a template, which helps with print formatted files.
---

<p class="flow-text">
Transformer, allows the user to transform <a href="https://products.office.com/excel" title="Microsoft Excel">Microsoft Excel</a> XLS (not XLSX) files to <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180" title="Comma Separated Values">CSV</a> files using a template, which helps with print formatted files.
</p>
<dl class="flow-text">
    <dt>Template file prefix</dt>
    <dd>Prefix used by template files. The part of the template file name after the prefix should match the original file name.</dd>
</dl>
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<div class="row" id="characteristics">
    <h3 class="orange-text center">Characteristics</h3>
    <div class="col s12 l6">
        <dl class="flow-text">
            <dt>ID</dt>
            <dd>{{ page.short }}</dd>
            <dt>Type</dt>
            <dd>{{ page.type }}</dd>
            <dt>Inputs</dt>
            <dd>Files - Data</dd>
            <dd>Files - Templates</dd>
            <dt>Outputs</dt>
            <dd>Files</dd>
            <dt>Look in pipeline</dt>
            <dd><img class="responsive-img" src="../assets/components/{{page.short}}.png" alt="{{page.title}}"></dd>
        </dl>
    </div>
    <div class="col s12 l6">
        <p class="flow-text">
        The {{page.title}} component takes the input <a href="https://products.office.com/excel" title="Microsoft Excel">Microsoft Excel</a> files and templates and extracts <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180" title="Comma Separated Values">CSV</a> files from them.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>