Overview
What Calc is, who it is for, and how its two modes fit together.
Calc is the GIMLabs Excel add-in. It adds a Calc tab to the Excel ribbon that signs you in, loads your projects and templates from the cloud, and pulls structured project data straight into your workbook - ready to calculate, chart and report on.
It is built for users who do their analysis in Excel and want live project data in the tool they already use, without exporting, rekeying or copying between files.
Runs in desktop Excel
Calc is a Windows add-in for desktop Microsoft Excel, so you will need both to use it. See Install and sign in to get set up.
Two ways to work
Calc has two modes, and the ribbon changes to match the one you are in.
Open a template and Collect live project data into structured sheets, with charts that fill in automatically. This is the everyday Use mode.
Design the templates everyone else collects against - choose tables, columns, filters, charts and project constants. This is Design mode.
How a template becomes a report
Sign in
Log in with your GIMLabs account from the Calc ribbon.
Pick a project
Choose the project you are working on. Everything that follows is scoped to it.
Open a template
Open one of the project's templates - either to collect data (Use mode) or to edit it (Design mode).
Collect
Click Collect. Calc pulls the matching data into the workbook, applies any filters, and binds your charts to it.
How it fits with the platform
Calc reads the same project data as the rest of GIMLabs. The locations, samples and test results you collect in Excel are the same records captured in Log, validated in Manage, and shared through Connect. There is one source of truth - Calc just brings it into Excel.
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Last updated 17 June 2026