Hello Fellow Scannerheads,
I tinkered around with an Excel spreadsheet today to make it easier for me to convert my Freescan conventional groups into Sentinel BCDx36 HP software. I thought I'd share it here in case anyone else finds it helpful.
Basically, you go into a Freescan conventional group, select and copy all of the channels you want to export, then paste them into the spreadsheet in A1, and the spreadsheet will apply some formulas to the Freescan fields, so that they can be copied from the spreadsheet into Sentinel. I've tried it with my own files, and I think it will save me some time.
You can download the spreadsheet at the link below.
http://www.bensware.com/scandfw/FreeScanToBCDSentinal.XLS
It does not use macros, but you'll probably get a message about those when you open it. I probably won't have too much time to help you troubleshoot any problems, but hopefully it will make your life a little easier, and not more complicated.
Oh, if you don't have Excel, it should work with OpenOffice available at http://www.openoffice.org/.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Ben
I tinkered around with an Excel spreadsheet today to make it easier for me to convert my Freescan conventional groups into Sentinel BCDx36 HP software. I thought I'd share it here in case anyone else finds it helpful.
Basically, you go into a Freescan conventional group, select and copy all of the channels you want to export, then paste them into the spreadsheet in A1, and the spreadsheet will apply some formulas to the Freescan fields, so that they can be copied from the spreadsheet into Sentinel. I've tried it with my own files, and I think it will save me some time.
You can download the spreadsheet at the link below.
http://www.bensware.com/scandfw/FreeScanToBCDSentinal.XLS
It does not use macros, but you'll probably get a message about those when you open it. I probably won't have too much time to help you troubleshoot any problems, but hopefully it will make your life a little easier, and not more complicated.
Oh, if you don't have Excel, it should work with OpenOffice available at http://www.openoffice.org/.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Ben
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