Tools for everyday office work on Windows
Two programs from Clarus. One turns Word, Excel and PowerPoint files into PDFs, combines them and takes pages out of PDFs, all from the right-click menu. The other adds four ribbon tabs of tools, worksheet functions and petroleum calculators to Excel.
Windows · File Explorer right-click menu
Clarus PDF Toolkit
Converts Word, Excel and PowerPoint files to PDF, combines files into one PDF and extracts pages from PDFs, straight from the right-click menu. There is nothing to open first: select the files, right-click, and choose what you want done.
Convert each file to PDF
Word, Excel and PowerPoint files become PDFs, one for each file. Office itself does the conversion, so the PDF looks the way the file looks in Office.
Combine files to PDF
Puts several files into a single PDF, in the order you choose. Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, existing PDFs, or a mix of them.
Extract pages from PDF
Takes chosen pages out of a PDF into one new PDF, or puts each page into a PDF of its own.
Smaller PDFs
Optimize for email and web leaves out font data no PDF viewer uses and, in a combined PDF, stores each font only once. Nothing on the pages changes.
How to use it
- In File Explorer, select one or more files.
- Right-click one of them. On Windows 11, hold Shift while you right-click, or choose Show more options.
- Choose a Clarus command. By default each PDF is saved next to its original.
Settings (from the Start menu shortcut) choose where PDFs are saved, which Excel sheets are converted, and how PowerPoint is printed: slides, notes pages or handouts.
What you need
- Windows 10 or Windows 11, with .NET Framework 4.8 (built into Windows 10 version 1903 and later).
- Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint (Office 2010 or later) for the file types you want to convert.
- Combining existing PDFs and extracting pages need no Office.
Excel add-in · Excel 2010 and later
Clarus Tools for Excel
Adds four tabs to Excel's ribbon: a row highlighter, a scientific calculator and a units converter, some thirty tools for cells, comments, rows, sheets and folders of workbooks, a dozen worksheet functions, and twenty-five petroleum engineering calculators. Every tab starts with a Clarus Help button that explains each button on it.
Clarus Tools
- Row highlighter across the whole sheet: colour, transparency, bold
- Scientific calculator that can write its answer or formula to a cell
- Units converter
- Sheet tools, and combining or merging a whole folder of workbooks
Clarus Edit
- Text: add, fill, flag, colour, extract sentences, drop spaces
- Numbers and dates: round, extract numbers, shift dates
- Comments to and from cells
- Rows: band, fit, copy or delete visible rows; counts and unique values
Clarus Functions
Worksheet functions such as =GetWell(A2), concatAll, CountUnique and TrueDuration, with argument tips as you type and full help in Excel's Function Arguments window.
Clarus Petroleum
Twenty-five calculators for volumes, pressure and kill sheets, tubulars, pumps, cementing, stimulation and fluids, in oilfield or metric units, taking values from and writing results to the sheet.
Good to know
- Give any tool keyboard shortcuts of your own; keys Excel already uses are refused.
- Setup replaces an earlier version (Clarus Tools, BPAL Tools, RowHighligher) and the highlighter's settings carry over.
- Before sending a workbook to someone without the add-in, use Functions to Values; otherwise its Clarus functions show
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Every petroleum calculator names the published formula it rests on (API Bulletin 5C3, API 5CT and 5DP sizes, handbook density tables). They are aids for estimates, not a substitute for an engineered design.
What you need
- Microsoft Excel 2010 or later on Windows.
- .NET Framework 4.7.2 or later (part of Windows 10 version 1803 and later).
- The Microsoft Office tools runtime. Setup installs it if the PC lacks it, and that one step asks for an administrator.
- Restart Excel after installing to see the Clarus tabs.
Installing
Download, run Setup, done
1. This user or everyone
Setup first asks whether to install for you only, which needs no administrator, or for all users of the computer, which does.
2. If Windows warns you
The installers are not code-signed, so your browser may say the file "isn't commonly downloaded" (choose Keep) and Windows may show "Windows protected your PC".
Choose More info, then Run anyway.
3. Check the file (optional)
To be sure the download is intact, run this in PowerShell and compare the result with the SHA-256 shown above:
Get-FileHash .\<file name>.exe
Updating and uninstalling
Run the newer Setup over the installed version. Uninstall from Settings › Apps like any other program; for the Excel add-in, close Excel first.