SpreadsheetConverter Calculator

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Getting started

Part 1 — Convert your spreadsheet (in Excel)

You need the SpreadsheetConverter add-in for Excel to convert your workbook. It runs in Excel desktop (Windows or Mac) or in Excel on the web (free with a Microsoft account — no need to buy Excel). Install it (free trial) from https://addin.spreadsheetconverter.com/install

1. 04Start Excel and open your workbook — e.g. mortgage-calculator.xlsx .
2. 05Open the SpreadsheetConverter task pane (Home ribbon → SpreadsheetConverter).
3. 06Sign in if prompted (required to convert).
4. 07Press Convert. For the recommended Server mode any flavor is fine — the Server compiles the workbook itself. For Host on this site or Link to the cloud you must select Flavor = HTML and tick the Embeddable checkbox first — those two modes embed the converted bundle, and only an Embeddable HTML conversion produces it. The spreadsheet becomes an interactive web calculator (a few seconds).
5. 08Get the link to paste into WordPress. On the green Converted card: Recommended: press Publish to the Server , then Copy link on the Published to the Server card — a permanent link to your form on SpreadsheetConverter Server (visitors’ entries are saved as records there).
6. 09To host it on your own WordPress site: under ▸ More options → WordPress , press Copy link — the short-lived conversion link (use it within a few minutes).
7. 10To link to the SpreadsheetConverter cloud instead: under Classic cloud , press Publish to cloud , then copy the permanent link. Only a permanent Publish-to-cloud link works for cloud-linking — a temporary “Test in cloud” link (its address contains /tmp/ ) is rejected by the block.
8. 11In every case you paste the whole link and the block double-checks it. Nothing is downloaded to your computer.

Part 2 — Add it to your WordPress page

1. 12Open your WordPress page for editing (Pages → Add New). You are already signed in to WordPress here — that is why you never type a password into Excel.
2. 13Add the SpreadsheetConverter block (＋ → “SpreadsheetConverter Calculator”).
3. 14Paste your link. The block recognizes the link type and offers the matching option: Server form link ( …/forms/your-form , a record link …/forms/your-form/17, or the …/embed.html address itself) → Embed from the Server (recommended). Click it. The form mounts inline straight from the Server — no Server header, menu or records row, just the form, styled by your theme.
4. 15Conversion link → Host on this site . Click it. WordPress fetches your calculator and stores it inside your own site.
5. 16Publish-to-Cloud link → Link to the cloud. The calculator stays on the cloud; your page references it.
6. 17Temporary “Test in Cloud” link → the block shows: “This is a temporary test link — click Publish to Cloud in Excel for a permanent one.”
7. 18A Server link that is not a form (a Records list, a Properties page, a private link) → “Paste the form’s own link — the address ‘Open your form’ opens in Excel (…/forms/your-form). Records lists, Properties pages and private links can’t be embedded.”
8. 19Anything unrecognized → “That doesn’t look like a SpreadsheetConverter link — copy it again from the Excel panel.”
9. 20See the live preview inside the editor — no grey iframe, theme-styled, calculates live.
10. 21Press Publish (the WordPress button). The page goes live.
11. 22View your live page. It calculates, validates, moves between sheets, and Submit works. On a Server form, what a visitor types is saved to the Server exactly as on the Server’s own page: a small save status sits at the top of the form, action buttons show their outcome in the page, and you find the records under Records on the Server.

Server forms — notes and limits

• One calculator per page (all modes; the calculator is page-global).
• Classic themes: [ssc_calc token=”https://server.spreadsheetconverter.com/t/acme/forms/order”].
• Updating later: re-publish to the Server — your page mounts the new version on reload; nothing to change in WordPress.
• Returning visitors: in most browsers a visitor who comes back to your page is recognized again (the Server keeps their identity in a partitioned cookie) and continues with their earlier entry. A browser that refuses partitioned cookies starts a fresh entry instead — the earlier one stays safe on the Server.
• No sign-in inside the mount: a members-only form shows the Server’s refusal in the save status with a link to sign in on the Server’s own page.
• Forms published before this release: re-publish once so images inside the form and returning-visitor recognition work in the mount (both ride a per-form file that updates on publish).
• Your site sends its own Content-Security-Policy? Allow https://server.spreadsheetconverter.com in script-src , style-src , img-src and connect-src — the same four the cloud-link mode needs for spreadsheethosting. WordPress itself sends no CSP by default.
• Troubleshooting: open …/forms/your-form/embed.html directly in a browser. If it works there but not on your page, the issue is your page’s CSP, a plugin stripping the custom element, or a theme script clashing with a global the calculator uses.