Ribbon - Home tab
The ribbon's Home tab contains the most useful commands from the other tabs, and normally should contain everything you need in order to convert a PDF document into Excel. If you find that you often have to use commands that aren't on this tab, you can choose to add them to it. The default commands on the Home tab are:
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Opens an existing document which you want to convert into Excel. | |
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Loads a previously saved PDF2XL layout. | Clipboard |
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Copies the current selection to the clipboard. | |
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Pastes the current contents of the clipboard. | Marking Mode |
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When marking a new layout element, PDF2XL CLI will automatically decide whether it should be a table or a field. | |
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When marking a new layout element, it will be created as a table. | |
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When marking a new layout element, it will be created as a field. | |
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Switches to text selection mode. In this mode you can select text from the document, but you cannot create new elements or interact with existing ones. | Structure |
![]() This panel allows you to select the type of template structure used for this document. It also has a button that opens the Document Template dialog. |
Auto Detection | |
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Attempt to create a template by auto detecting tables according to current template settings. For example, if the template settings say that all pages are the same, then it will auto detect tables in the current page and apply that same layout to the rest of the pages. | |
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Attempt to create a layout for the current page by automatically detecting tables in it. | Clear |
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Clear the layouts from all pages. | |
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Clear the layout from the current page. | Conversion Format |
![]() This panel gives you a selection of formats to convert your document into, including: Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Clipboard, OpenOffice, CSV, HTML | Conversion | |
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Press this button to convert your document according to the layout and options you've selected. |