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?

[middletree]

<la**********@y ahoo.com> wrote in message
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Have two style sheets, one where it's an HTML view, the other for
Excel.

So you specify one on the new ASP page (not the one which contains the
button to geerate the .xls file)?

[Curt_C [MVP]]

What I was getting at is maybe generate it two ways, one visually for the
web and one for "saving" where you strip out all the extra tags when a
button is clicked?

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"middletree " <mi********@HTO mail.com> wrote in message
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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
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Curt Christianson
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"middletree " <mi********@hto mail.com> wrote in message
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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.
>
>

[middletree]

Ok. I don't have my code handy right now, but as I recall I had:

Page 1, which consists of a table built by ASP using an SQL query. It looks
like this:
http://www.middletree.net/sort.htm

Keep in mind that that's an HTML page that I put out on my personal site,
not the real deal. But I got it by saving the real one to an HTML file, so
it's an example of the possible output for page 1.

Now, Page 1 has a submit button at the bottom (not shown in the example
page), which calls you to what we'll refer to as Page 2. That page has no
HTML, just some ASP. To see that code, see the answer given to me in the
thread which I began March 25 at 11:42 AM Central time. I used that code as
a basis for what I did.

So Page 1 has ASP which builds an HTML table. Page 2 just has some ASP code
which tells it to take everything in that table and build a spreadsheet.
Since Page 2 has no HTML, I don't see room for code which references a
stylesheet.

I'm not trying to be argumentative, just trying to understand how this could
be done. If you tell me that I should just put the style sheet with the
proper formatting in that second page, then I'll try it out first thing
tomorrow morning.

Even then, though, I don't know how I'd code to include the gridlines (which
currently aren't showing in the resulting spreadsheet). I tried simply
having the table to have a border of 1 instead of 0, but that didn't do the
trick. I am still trying to find some documentation which describes the
syntax for this stuff.

I appreciate your bearing with me.
"Curt_C [MVP]" <software_AT_da rkfalz.com> wrote in message
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What I was getting at is maybe generate it two ways, one visually for the
web and one for "saving" where you strip out all the extra tags when a
button is clicked?

--
Curt Christianson
Site & Scripts: http://www.Darkfalz.com
Blog: http://blog.Darkfalz.com
"middletree " <mi********@HTO mail.com> wrote in message
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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
news:ek******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P15.phx.gbl...

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
"middletree " <mi********@hto mail.com> wrote in message
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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.
>
>

[larrybud2002]

middletree wrote:

<la**********@y ahoo.com> wrote in message
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Have two style sheets, one where it's an HTML view, the other for
Excel.
So you specify one on the new ASP page (not the one which contains

the button to geerate the .xls file)?

The style sheet reference is on the final HTML/XLS page. The reference
would to the CSS would be dynamic.