On 25/11/2002 21:13:28 perl-win32-users-admin wrote:

>Hello,
>
>        I have an Excel spreadsheet that a person saves to a network drive

>daily.  I want to automate the task of opening the file and saving it as
html
>(the person can't do it themselves, their not technical enough! ).  I know
the
>OLE modules can let you manipulate the data in a spreadsheet but can it
save
>the file as html?
>

If I were you, I'd extract the data from the spreadsheet and write the
HTML from Perl. The $expletive produced by Excel claiming to be HTML
is just awful (and Office 2000 is even worse).

If you do save from Excel, make sure you run the resulting file through
HTML Tidy.

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