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Resolved Converting documents to html

Discussion in 'Other PC Software' started by hill47, 2011/05/28.

  1. 2011/05/28
    hill47

    hill47 Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Please can someone give me some advice?
    I am the webmaster for a federation of folk clubs which also produces a monthly magazine. Some of the items in the magazine, mainly tabular data, are also published on the website. These documents are produced in early versions of Excel and Word.
    I have found that the "Save as web page (html)" facility in Excel does not work very well, and the resulting document has to be manually re-formatted in my HTML editor (MS Expression Web 4) to make it visually acceptable when viewed on the web. Word seems to work better, but is not ideal.

    What is the best solution? Should we be preparing the original documents with another program, for example Publisher?

    Thanks,
    Geoff
     
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    PeteC

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    Have you tried simply pasting the document into the web page? Works for me using FrontPage 2003, for Word docs at least, not had cause to try Excel, but the table facility in Word may be enough for you.
     
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    hill47

    hill47 Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Thanks,
    It works ok with word, but excel doesn't work properly.
     
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  5. 2011/05/29
    TonyT

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    Use a real database at the site. You can export the excel files as csv and import into an sql database.
     
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  6. 2011/05/29
    hill47

    hill47 Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    I'm afraid I am not familiar with SQL database technology. Is it easy to learn, or is there another way?

    Thanks,
    Geoff
     
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  7. 2011/05/31
    TonyT

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    Not easy, requires knowledge of sql & a scripting language like php.
    What version of Office? Do you have the Office Web Components installed?
     
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  8. 2011/06/05
    hill47

    hill47 Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Hi,
    I have Office 2003. I did not know about the Web Components, will they help?
    I will take a look.

    Thanks for your input.

    Geoff
     
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