I'm writing a section for the Calc Guide about linking from a
spreadsheet to external data. I found a page in the help titled
"Inserting External Data in Table (WebQuery)" which explains what to do
but seems to assume some background knowledge that I don't have (and I
suspect many of the readers of the Calc Guide won't have) -- or perhaps
it's just a matter of using terms in ways that are not familiar to me.
So I hope someone here can help me understand better, so I can write
this up for the user guide.
I searched the forum and the wiki, and didn't find anything useful to
me. Haven't gone to the [users] list yet; thought I'm check with this
group first.
For example, here's part of a sentence from the help:
"If you have loaded an HTML document with the Web Page Query filter as
the source document..."
Er... how do I "load a doc with the WPQ filter"? Do I simply choose that
as a file type in the Open dialog? Or does something else need to be done?
"... you will find the tables in the Navigator, named continuously from
HTML_table1 onwards, and also two range names that have been created:
HTML_all – designates the entire document
HTML_tables – designates all HTML tables in the document"
I guess I need to somehow pick a table of data and avoid tables used for
layout... or does it matter?
An example, with illustrations or HTML samples, might help me get the
concept. I suspect it's quite easy and obvious once one understands it!
Thanks for any help you can give me.
--Jean
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