NePasSorcier

Ce n'est pas sorcier.

/sə nɛ pa sɔʁ.sje/ — French for “it's not rocket science.”

Small, focused Mac apps for the Office files that make Mac users sigh.

NePasSorcier.com builds utilities that each fix one specific headache, run entirely on your Mac, and get out of your way.

RapidExtract

First to launch

Embedded files, returned to you.

Colleagues on Windows embed PDFs and other files inside spreadsheets, documents and presentations without realizing the Mac versions of Excel, Word and PowerPoint can't open them. Drop the file on RapidExtract and it lists every embedded and linked object in document order. Pick the files you want and save them to a folder or as a single ZIP.

It also tells you what deserves caution. Files that can run code, such as programs and scripts, are flagged, and for macro-enabled formats RapidExtract reports whether macros were actually found.

  • FilesExcel, Word and PowerPoint, including macro-enabled versions (.xlsx, .xlsm, .docx, .docm, .pptx, .pptm)
  • Saves toA folder or a ZIP archive
  • ShortcutFinder Services menu
  • PrivacyRuns entirely on your Mac. Never fetches linked files and keeps no history of what you open.
  • LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Spanish
  • RequiresmacOS 14 Sonoma or later on Apple silicon

CFRuleCleaner

In development

Clear out the conditional formatting rules that stopped doing anything.

Copy, paste and insert enough rows in a workbook and its conditional formatting quietly multiplies into hundreds of duplicate and orphaned rules. CFRuleCleaner can select the dead ones for deletion in one step. You always decide what goes: add any rule to the selection or remove any rule from it before anything is deleted.

When it isn't sure a rule is dead, it leaves that rule unselected.

  • FilesExcel workbooks
  • SelectsRules that no longer apply
  • You chooseAdd or remove any rule from the selection
  • MacsApple silicon

One job each

Every app solves one specific problem and stops there. Open it, fix the file, close it.

Minimal learning curve

No manuals, no setup, no new workflow. If you can open a file on a Mac, you already know how to use them.

Your files stay put

The work happens on your Mac. Spreadsheets from clients and coworkers never leave your machine.

Cautious by default

When a tool can't be certain, it tells you or leaves things as they were, instead of guessing.

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