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Getting started with Snipping

Watch a short video and read the breakdown of the five Snip types: Text, Sum, Validation, Exception, and Table.

With Snips you can cross-reference Excel with supporting evidence such as PDFs, images, MS Word, and Excel files. The references are stored directly in the workbook, which makes it very easy to review audit and finance procedures.

Video walkthrough

Watch this short video for an overview of the different Snip types and how to use each one in DataSnipper.

What the video covers

The walkthrough demonstrates the five core Snip types side-by-side in Excel. It shows how to capture data from a PDF into a cell, how each Snip type creates a visible link back to the source document, and how the linked references stay attached to the workbook so reviewers can re-open them at any time.

The five Snip types

Text Snip

With the Text Snip, you extract text from all sorts of documents (PDF, Word, images, scanned files) directly into a cell in Excel.

Sum Snip

With the Sum Snip, you extract numbers from a document and sum them directly in a cell in Excel.

Validation Snip

With the Validation Snip, you indicate that data in a document is correct according to your professional judgment.

Exception Snip

With the Exception Snip, you indicate that data in a document is not validated by your professional judgment.

Table Snip

With the Table Snip, you extract tabular data from multiple pages. Useful for documents with multiple tables that share a similar structure.

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