TableMaker: An Excel Macro for Publication-Quality Tables

This article introduces TableMaker, a Microsoft Excel macro that produces publicationquality tables and includes them as new sheets in workbooks. The macro provides an intuitive graphical user interface that allows for the full customization of all table features. It also allows users to save and lo...

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Main Author: Marek Hlavac
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2016-04-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
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Online Access:https://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/view/2668
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description This article introduces TableMaker, a Microsoft Excel macro that produces publicationquality tables and includes them as new sheets in workbooks. The macro provides an intuitive graphical user interface that allows for the full customization of all table features. It also allows users to save and load table templates, and thus allows layouts to be both reproducible and transferable. It is distributed in a single computer file. As such, the macro is easy to share, as well as accessible to even beginning and casual users of Excel. Since it allows for the quick creation of reproducible and fully customizable tables, TableMaker can be very useful to academics, policy-makers and businesses by making the presentation and formatting of results faster and more efficient.
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spelling doaj.art-2c05a495b5004e82895b57c50a19210e2022-12-22T02:30:46ZengFoundation for Open Access StatisticsJournal of Statistical Software1548-76602016-04-0170111610.18637/jss.v070.c031002TableMaker: An Excel Macro for Publication-Quality TablesMarek HlavacThis article introduces TableMaker, a Microsoft Excel macro that produces publicationquality tables and includes them as new sheets in workbooks. The macro provides an intuitive graphical user interface that allows for the full customization of all table features. It also allows users to save and load table templates, and thus allows layouts to be both reproducible and transferable. It is distributed in a single computer file. As such, the macro is easy to share, as well as accessible to even beginning and casual users of Excel. Since it allows for the quick creation of reproducible and fully customizable tables, TableMaker can be very useful to academics, policy-makers and businesses by making the presentation and formatting of results faster and more efficient.https://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/view/2668tablepresentationMicrosoft ExcelVisual Basic for Applications
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Visual Basic for Applications
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