Re: FN-FORUM: Re: Editing Word and excel docs on a hosted ISP server

date posted 26th July 2005 00:00

> I'd say you're largely buggered on the excel front.

Actually Excel is easy to interface to from a web server.

If you're excel is reasonably recent, simply output an HTML table with
what you want, and give it the extension.xls - Excel will read the HTML
and turn it into a spreadsheet quite happily.

You can do formatting and equations too - try outputting an Excel
spreadsheet as HTML to see how MS store the equation info in the HTML.
It's not pretty but it works fine!

colspan and rowspan even work to merge cells together in the spreadsheet :)

Cheers!

Anthony
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