I have this timeline made using Excel and I was wondering if there is an easy to transfer this into Overleaf –
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Excel2Latex may work for you, but I was unable to get it working in my copy of Excel on the Mac (I have Office 365 and version 16.49 of Excel). It hasn't been updated in four years so you may have better luck with an older version of Excel.
The documentation is a little outdated. The options aren't in the Tools menu but, at least on my Mac, it's in the ribbon under Add-ins. The interface gets a little confused with my retina mac display (it seems to want to render things really small), but it does appear to work. By default, it assumes the booktabs package is loaded but this can be configured.
You can put the graph as a seperate document tab (opposed to inside a sheet). Then you can print it to PDF, using either some installed PDF printer or the Office built-in PDF printer. Then you can include the graph using the package graphicx and the command \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{graph.pdf}.
You can as well download the TeX fonts as OTF and use them in Office, achieving the font consistency. The basic Computer Modern can be gotten here in the renewed version Latin Modern:
For tables you can use Excel2Latex or Csv2Latex. Excel to latex sometimes has a weird bug, where it inserts an invisible character. So I prefer the latter. Some editors also have an option to insert csv as a latex table.
For figures you can install ASAP-utility which will allow you to save your figures as a image (.png, .jpg or .esp). You can then insert them in your .tex file with \includegraphics{}
Best Answer
Excel2Latex may work for you,
but I was unable to get it working in my copy of Excel on the Mac (I have Office 365 and version 16.49 of Excel). It hasn't been updated in four years so you may have better luck with an older version of Excel.The documentation is a little outdated. The options aren't in the Tools menu but, at least on my Mac, it's in the ribbon under Add-ins. The interface gets a little confused with my retina mac display (it seems to want to render things really small), but it does appear to work. By default, it assumes the
booktabs
package is loaded but this can be configured.