Excel 2004 with internet assistant?

S

Suz

Firstly, is internet assistant provided with Excel 2004? The microsoft
website has been useless as usual.
Secondly, is it any good? Or are there better ways to modify how excel
saves into html? Ideally I'd like to be able to convert to html via a
custom template.

Cheers,
Suz
 
J

Jim Gordon

Hi Suz,

The VBA Internet Assistant Add-In is included with Excel 2004.

There are programmatic ways to save Excel as web pages using Visual
Basic for Applications and using AppleScript.

You can convert Excel to HTML using File > Save As Web page. That
feature has additional options including the ability to automatically
update the web page whenever you save the workbook. This feature
requires no programming at all.

Excel 2004 can save Excel workbooks as XML files, too.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP
 
S

Suz

Yeah thanks for that. I found the internet assistant on the office
install disk and installed it onto my machine. But nothing happens! It
doesn't show up in the damn tools menu and I can't find any help pages
on the useless microsoft site.

<sigh>

Am using Excel 2004 on a G5 machine running Tiger.
 
J

Jim Gordon

Hi again,

The assistant is an Excel add-in. Before you can use an add-in you must
first let Excel know that the add-in exists and that you want to use it.

To do that, go to the TOOLS menu. Choose Add-Ins. Since the Internet
Assistant is a stock add-in it should be in the list of available
add-ins. just put a check mark by it and click OK.

Add-ins are 3rd party products. A few come with Office, but the vast
majority are available from hundreds of other providers. Some are free.
Some you have to pay for. They are compiled programs that extend the
features of Office applications.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP
 

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