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ASP to show Excel .xls file on the web

I am a newbie to ASP programming. Can anyone show me a simple script that will read an Excel .xls file in the same directory as the ASP file and show the content on the web?

Maybe simple ASP script with sample xls file ready go would be perfect for me!

Thanks in advance.

So I need NT server to run this or can windows98 personal server can handle it? Please excuse my ignorance... I am currently running Apache on Linux. Any luck with ASP?

Flubbadub

If your client browser id IE then you don't need any special code to display an XLS! Just point the browser at the URL of the xls file and Whammo! (nOTE On Navigator you will get an "Open File/Save File" dialog.

enterume

What you mean is read the data from .XLS and view it brower? you want to do sth like database access to .XLS file or try to display only the .XLS file?

yjh123

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I need to be able to read certain part of excel file and show on the web. Not as a whole, but a certain fields based on certain criteria. (e.g, date=4/3/00)
I will be embedding this on a table on a webpage. So downloding or open from the location is not what I had in mind.

Next phase would be getting input from the browser and write it back to the excel file... I know it is getting complicated, but hope to achieve one at a time...

Thanks for your help.

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