Excel properties

[middletree]

Curt and McKirahan have been very helpful the past week as I have been
introduced to something new to me: generating a spreadsheet from ASP.

Now that I have the spreadsheet, I am in need of knowledge about how to
control the properties. By properties, I mean font, hyperlink, and color
information. I'd like the spreadsheet to have the same data as the HTML page
it's getting the data from, but in a different format. I have been searching
in
several places, including the Excel Help files, but cannot find any info on
how to do this.

I'm not asking anyone to tell me how to do this; just looking for where to
find out how to do this.

Anyone here have any idea where I can look?

[Curt_C [MVP]]

Now I dont know this for sure, but since the HTML code for generating an XLS
is really just an html table/cell thing you should be able to use these same
tags to set some attributes. Beyond that you may have to go to using a
component for your doc. There are limited capabilities in
HTML/ASP/VbScript/etc....

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Curt and McKirahan have been very helpful the past week as I have been
introduced to something new to me: generating a spreadsheet from ASP.

Now that I have the spreadsheet, I am in need of knowledge about how to
control the properties. By properties, I mean font, hyperlink, and color
information. I'd like the spreadsheet to have the same data as the HTML
page
it's getting the data from, but in a different format. I have been
searching
in
several places, including the Excel Help files, but cannot find any info
on
how to do this.

I'm not asking anyone to tell me how to do this; just looking for where to
find out how to do this.

Anyone here have any idea where I can look?

[Tom Kaminski [MVP]]

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Curt and McKirahan have been very helpful the past week as I have been
introduced to something new to me: generating a spreadsheet from ASP.

Now that I have the spreadsheet, I am in need of knowledge about how to
control the properties. By properties, I mean font, hyperlink, and color
information. I'd like the spreadsheet to have the same data as the HTML page it's getting the data from, but in a different format. I have been searching in
several places, including the Excel Help files, but cannot find any info on how to do this.

I'm not asking anyone to tell me how to do this; just looking for where to
find out how to do this.

Anyone here have any idea where I can look?

In addition to what Curt said, try creating the spreadsheet first in Excel
and then save it as HTML. Look at the resulting code so you can "reverse
engineer" the proper output format you need.

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[larrybud2002]

> > Anyone here have any idea where I can look?

In addition to what Curt said, try creating the spreadsheet first in Excel and then save it as HTML. Look at the resulting code so you can "reverse engineer" the proper output format you need.

No need to reverse engineering most of it since MS puts out
documentation on how to use this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ml/ofxml2k.asp

We use Excel basically for our print engine in ASP reports. I have a
default style sheet that sets up page margins, "fit to" properties, and
"repeat at top" setting which I pass in via a session variable to
repeat a certain # of rows at each page. Works great. There's just a
couple of annoyances in Excel, such as when you put a formula in a
cell, it doesn't automatically change the width of the cell to fit the
RESULT of the formula, so you have to specifically set the width in
pixels.

[middletree]

"Curt_C [MVP]" <software_AT_da rkfalz.com> wrote in message
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Now I dont know this for sure, but since the HTML code for generating an XLS is really just an html table/cell thing you should be able to use these same tags to set some attributes. Beyond that you may have to go to using a
component for your doc. There are limited capabilities in
HTML/ASP/VbScript/etc....

Well, the problem is, there are things in the presentation on the HTML page
(from which the spreadsheet is launched) that I don't want in the
spreadsheet, such as hyperlinks, the gridlines not showing, etc, as well as
some things to be changed, such as background colors, fonts, etc.

So I'm assuming there is some sort of a DOM for this, but I can't find any
doc on it.

[middletree]

"Tom Kaminski [MVP]" <tomk (A@T) mvps (D.O.T) org> wrote in message
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In addition to what Curt said, try creating the spreadsheet first in Excel
and then save it as HTML. Look at the resulting code so you can "reverse
engineer" the proper output format you need.

I don't think I'm doing a good job of explaining myself. I have a web page,
and is displays data. I want to export that data into a spreadsheet, with
the click of a button. I have this working successfully. However, the
resulting spreadsheet carries the properties that the HTML version has,
properties that I don't want it to carry over. The gridlines don't show, the
rows are alternating colors, I'd like to change the fonts, and I'd like to
remove the hyperlinks.

I figure this thing must have a DOM or some way to specify properties as it
generates the spreadsheet, but I am looking for instructions on how to do
this.

[middletree]

Hmmm, if I write up a style sheet, separate for the ASP page which produces
the spreadsheet, I wonder if that might work.

[larrybud2002]

middletree wrote:

"Tom Kaminski [MVP]" <tomk (A@T) mvps (D.O.T) org> wrote in message
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In addition to what Curt said, try creating the spreadsheet first in Excel and then save it as HTML. Look at the resulting code so you can "reverse engineer" the proper output format you need.

I don't think I'm doing a good job of explaining myself. I have a web

page, and is displays data. I want to export that data into a spreadsheet, with the click of a button. I have this working successfully. However, the
resulting spreadsheet carries the properties that the HTML version has, properties that I don't want it to carry over. The gridlines don't show, the rows are alternating colors, I'd like to change the fonts, and I'd like to remove the hyperlinks.

I figure this thing must have a DOM or some way to specify properties as it generates the spreadsheet, but I am looking for instructions on how to do this.

Have two style sheets, one where it's an HTML view, the other for
Excel.

[Curt_C [MVP]]

Ahh... that's different.
Use something like this to build a different versions for display/use
http://www.darkfalz.com/1066
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"Tom Kaminski [MVP]" <tomk (A@T) mvps (D.O.T) org> wrote in message
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In addition to what Curt said, try creating the spreadsheet first in
Excel
and then save it as HTML. Look at the resulting code so you can "reverse
engineer" the proper output format you need.

I don't think I'm doing a good job of explaining myself. I have a web
page,
and is displays data. I want to export that data into a spreadsheet, with
the click of a button. I have this working successfully. However, the
resulting spreadsheet carries the properties that the HTML version has,
properties that I don't want it to carry over. The gridlines don't show,
the
rows are alternating colors, I'd like to change the fonts, and I'd like to
remove the hyperlinks.

I figure this thing must have a DOM or some way to specify properties as
it
generates the spreadsheet, but I am looking for instructions on how to do
this.

[middletree]

I've used this method to change the appearance of a web page when printing
before, and in fact, use it on this same Intranet app. I didn't know you
could specify it for Excel files that you build through ASP. In your
example, does it use the media=screeen, or media=print to apply to the
spreadsheet? Remember, I'm trying to affect the way the spreadsheet looks on
the screen. It may or may not get printed.
"Curt_C [MVP]" <software_AT_da rkfalz.com> wrote in message
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Ahh... that's different.
Use something like this to build a different versions for display/use
http://www.darkfalz.com/1066
--
Curt Christianson
Site & Scripts: http://www.Darkfalz.com
Blog: http://blog.Darkfalz.com
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"Tom Kaminski [MVP]" <tomk (A@T) mvps (D.O.T) org> wrote in message
news:uB******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl...

In addition to what Curt said, try creating the spreadsheet first in
Excel
and then save it as HTML. Look at the resulting code so you can "reverse engineer" the proper output format you need.

I don't think I'm doing a good job of explaining myself. I have a web
page,
and is displays data. I want to export that data into a spreadsheet, with the click of a button. I have this working successfully. However, the
resulting spreadsheet carries the properties that the HTML version has,
properties that I don't want it to carry over. The gridlines don't show,
the
rows are alternating colors, I'd like to change the fonts, and I'd like to remove the hyperlinks.

I figure this thing must have a DOM or some way to specify properties as
it
generates the spreadsheet, but I am looking for instructions on how to do this.