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Colectica for Microsoft Excel Standard Edition is a free tool to document your spreadsheet data using the open standard for data documentation.

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  • Document Datasets
  • Document Variables
  • Publish Documentation
  • DDI-Lifecycle Metadata
  • Copy table as Markdown

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  • All Standard Features
  • Import Spss to Excel
  • Import Stata to Excel
  • Import SAS to Excel
  • Email Support

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  • Perpetual License
  • Import Spss to Excel
  • Import Stata to Excel
  • Import SAS to Excel
  • Email Support

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Works on Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 v1607 and above, and Windows 11.

Works with Microsoft Excel 2007 SP3, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, and desktop 365.

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Document Variables and Datasets

Colectica allows documenting of Variables, Code Lists, and Data Sets directly from within Microsoft Excel.

Metadata is Embedded

Colectica saves your standards-based metadata directly in the Microsoft Excel file. If you email or share your file, the metadata will still be attached.

Publish Documentation

Colectica for Excel can generate documentation for your Variables, Code Lists, and dataset in PDF, Word, and HTML.

Import SAS to Excel

Colectica for Excel Professional allows direct importing and documenting of SAS data files with a file extension .sas7bdat, and SAS catalog files with an extension .sas7bcat. The variable names, labels and code lists in the SAS file will also be imported and added to the stored documentation automatically.

Import Stata to Excel

Colectica for Excel Professional allows direct importing and documenting of Stata data files, with a file extension .dta. The variable names, labels and code lists in the Stata file will also be imported and added to the stored documentation automatically.

Import SPSS to Excel

Colectica for Excel Professional allows direct importing and documenting of SPSS data files, with a file extension .sav. The variable names, labels and code lists in the SPSS file will also be imported and added to the stored documentation automatically.

Create DDI-Lifecycle Metadata

Export your data documentation to an XML file in the DDI metadata format, the standard for data documentation. Open and edit it from Colectica Designer, Colectica Express, or other DDI applications.

Want to document even more?

No problem. Learn how the rest of the Colectica platform enables you to document more types of metadata without any knowledge of XML.

Or, contact us about our metadata consulting, metadata preparation, or custom development services.