How do you embed Excel into a Web Page?

Question

I have a webpage that will show the fees & availability for a Spanish villa. I wish to set it up so that if you edit the Excel Spreadsheet the data in the webpage will update. This will make it easier for content management. Cheers in advance for any helpful suggestions.

Cheers for the response so far, do not need end users to be able to do anything. the spreadsheet just shows dates and costs of hiring a villa. I just need to make it easily updatable.... e.g from an excel spreadsheet. Rather than installing Dreamweaver and setting him up to edit it that way. All he needs to be able to do is add the word 'booked' next to a week once it has been so.

Answer 1

Hi,

If all you need is for a spreadsheet to be able to perform calculations using cell formulas you can use File > Save As and choose to save as HTML - but also check the Options and click the option to Add Interactivity.

The interactivity feature only works if your web site visitors are using Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser.

If you need to have a web form return information to you then you will need to have the ability to execute scripts (usually a CGI or PHP script or ASP) on the web server.

-Jim Gordon
Microsoft Mac MVP

MVPs are independent and do not work for Microsoft
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

Answer 2

i would suggest you setup a webserver or onto your host use an ASP with excel backend datasource settings website that queries from your excel files and have it post to your webpage.

Active Server Page is a product of microsoft so it would be easy to code a script that would use excel as its source