Getting started

From downloading the app to your first dashboard that keeps itself up to date. Six pages, in order — about half an hour end to end.

1. What TableDI is, and what it does for youThree minutes to place it. TableDI is a spreadsheet tool that installs on your own computer: data comes in, gets cleaned, and goes out as reports — all in one window. There is exactly one root difference from Excel, and after this page you will know whether to keep reading.
2. Download, install and first launchInstalling on macOS and Windows, how long the first launch takes, what the system security prompts mean, where your data lives and how updates arrive. You land straight in the app — there is no sign-up step.
3. Ten minutes in — walk through the sampleBring no files. The bundled sample workspace has a messy exported table, four formula columns, a summary table and a dashboard. Click through it and you will see the one thing that matters most: change a detail row and the summary and charts follow.
4. Import your first Excel fileThree ways in and how they differ, which formats work, what happens to headers and merged cells during import, and the four things to check afterwards. Importing has no row limit — free version included.
5. A tour of the interfaceThe sidebar, Home, Tools, Templates, Setting and Desktop settings, plus every part of the table editor and the dashboard editor. After this page you can find any button the rest of the manual mentions.
6. Free vs paid — what costs nothing, what does notThe free version has no trial period, no row cap and no import limits; the paid version unlocks nine "exit" capabilities. This page draws the line, and explains activating, what expiry does, and whether your data is ever held hostage.