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Jon
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      10th Dec 2004
Hi,
I dabble with FP, and manage a small site. Currently, I
have a link to an Excel file. The problem is that this
link actually opens the file in Excel. What I would like
to do is just display the information from the file. I
know that I could convert it to HTML and display it that
way, but this file is dynamic and changes a lot. Thus,
whenthe Excel file gets changed, the data in the web link
would need to be updated as well. Is there a way to do
this?

TIA,
Jon
 
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Thomas A. Rowe
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      10th Dec 2004
You would have to save the Excel as HTML to avoid this issue.

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"Jon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:2bea01c4deb8$df4bebe0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
> I dabble with FP, and manage a small site. Currently, I
> have a link to an Excel file. The problem is that this
> link actually opens the file in Excel. What I would like
> to do is just display the information from the file. I
> know that I could convert it to HTML and display it that
> way, but this file is dynamic and changes a lot. Thus,
> whenthe Excel file gets changed, the data in the web link
> would need to be updated as well. Is there a way to do
> this?
>
> TIA,
> Jon



 
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Murray
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      10th Dec 2004
You can use an excel file as a data source on the page, and then use
server-scripting to pull the data from the excel file and display it on the
page. Wouldn't that do what you want?

Be aware that using an XLS file as a data source is not very robust and is
definitely not scalable, so if you are expecting that page to have even
moderate traffic, you may need to seek other options.

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"Jon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2bea01c4deb8$df4bebe0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi,
> I dabble with FP, and manage a small site. Currently, I
> have a link to an Excel file. The problem is that this
> link actually opens the file in Excel. What I would like
> to do is just display the information from the file. I
> know that I could convert it to HTML and display it that
> way, but this file is dynamic and changes a lot. Thus,
> whenthe Excel file gets changed, the data in the web link
> would need to be updated as well. Is there a way to do
> this?
>
> TIA,
> Jon



 
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      10th Dec 2004
Murray,
This sounds like exactly what I need to do. I have never set anything like
this up before. Can you direct me to so info on how to do this?

TIA,
Jon

"Murray" wrote:

> You can use an excel file as a data source on the page, and then use
> server-scripting to pull the data from the excel file and display it on the
> page. Wouldn't that do what you want?
>
> Be aware that using an XLS file as a data source is not very robust and is
> definitely not scalable, so if you are expecting that page to have even
> moderate traffic, you may need to seek other options.
>
> --
> Murray
>
> "Jon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:2bea01c4deb8$df4bebe0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hi,
> > I dabble with FP, and manage a small site. Currently, I
> > have a link to an Excel file. The problem is that this
> > link actually opens the file in Excel. What I would like
> > to do is just display the information from the file. I
> > know that I could convert it to HTML and display it that
> > way, but this file is dynamic and changes a lot. Thus,
> > whenthe Excel file gets changed, the data in the web link
> > would need to be updated as well. Is there a way to do
> > this?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Jon

>
>
>

 
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Stefan B Rusynko
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      11th Dec 2004
See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=268948

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"Irish" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:9B652574-35BE-4B20-8A02-(E-Mail Removed)...
| Murray,
| This sounds like exactly what I need to do. I have never set anything like
| this up before. Can you direct me to so info on how to do this?
|
| TIA,
| Jon
|
| "Murray" wrote:
|
| > You can use an excel file as a data source on the page, and then use
| > server-scripting to pull the data from the excel file and display it on the
| > page. Wouldn't that do what you want?
| >
| > Be aware that using an XLS file as a data source is not very robust and is
| > definitely not scalable, so if you are expecting that page to have even
| > moderate traffic, you may need to seek other options.
| >
| > --
| > Murray
| >
| > "Jon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
| > news:2bea01c4deb8$df4bebe0$(E-Mail Removed)...
| > > Hi,
| > > I dabble with FP, and manage a small site. Currently, I
| > > have a link to an Excel file. The problem is that this
| > > link actually opens the file in Excel. What I would like
| > > to do is just display the information from the file. I
| > > know that I could convert it to HTML and display it that
| > > way, but this file is dynamic and changes a lot. Thus,
| > > whenthe Excel file gets changed, the data in the web link
| > > would need to be updated as well. Is there a way to do
| > > this?
| > >
| > > TIA,
| > > Jon
| >
| >
| >


 
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