How to convert Excel tables to LaTeX and insert
them into a LaTeX document
Klaus Moeltner
1 Downloading and activating “Excel2LaTeX”
1. Go to http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/excel2latex/.
2. Right-click on “Excel2LaTeX.xla” towards the bottom of the page
and select “save link as”.
3. Copy the file to your Microsoft Office Addins folder. On my PC, the
path is
C:\\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\ADDINS
4. Open Excel. Click on the Microsoft Symbol in the upper left hand
corner, then “Excel Options” at the bottom of the pop-up window. In
the “options” window, select “Addins”. Make sure Excel2LaTeX.xla
is shown as “activated”, else click on “manage Excel addins” at the
bottom and activate the addin.
5. Close and re-open Excel. You should now see an “Addins” tab in the
top menu bar. It has 2 sub-options. You will need only the first one
titled “Convert table to latex”.
2 Conversion steps
Create a table in Excel like you usually would. See the example posted on
this web page titled “HHbasics”, a table with basic sample demographics
that is customary in many empirical papers.
1. Select all cells of the table
2. open the “addins” tab, click on “Convert table to latex”.
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