Excel and the Web again

[kevs]

I posted this a couple of weeks ago. Jim Gordon asked for the url, and I
posted it but never heard back from Jim, maybe he's on vacation. In any
case he is the url:

<http://ktw56.mysite4now.com/audioreleased.html>

Notice the line of Black Crowes -- the southern Harmony, how it bleeds.

Here is original post:

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Kevs,

Sorry I missed the posting. I move from computer to computer and sometimes
lose track of threads that I am following.

But I did take a look at your page. The bleeding can be cured with a change
in the save-as-web-page Options. Click the Web Options button in the save-as
dialog box. On the "Pictures" tab change the setting from 72 dpi to 96 dpi.
Then your Excel workbooks will display well in Safari.

Incidentally, anyone with Excel can "round-trip" your web page back into
Excel. While in the web browser choose to View Source to display the HTML
code that makes up the web page. Choose Edit > Select All then Edit > Copy.
Switch to Excel then use Edit > Paste and paste the HTML code into a cell.
Excel will then restore the original spreadsheet (minus some formatting).

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

All responses should be made to this newsgroup within the same thread.
Thanks.

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Search for help with the free Google search Excel add-in:
<http://www.rondebruin.nl/Google.htm>

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[kevs]

Hi Kevs,

Sorry I missed the posting. I move from computer to computer and sometimes
lose track of threads that I am following.

But I did take a look at your page. The bleeding can be cured with a change in
the save-as-web-page Options. Click the Web Options button in the save-as
dialog box. On the "Pictures" tab change the setting from 72 dpi to 96 dpi.
Then your Excel workbooks will display well in Safari.

Incidentally, anyone with Excel can "round-trip" your web page back into
Excel. While in the web browser choose to View Source to display the HTML code
that makes up the web page. Choose Edit > Select All then Edit > Copy. Switch
to Excel then use Edit > Paste and paste the HTML code into a cell. Excel will
then restore the original spreadsheet (minus some formatting).

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

All responses should be made to this newsgroup within the same thread. Thanks.

About Microsoft MVPs:
http://www.mvps.org/

Search for help with the free Google search Excel add-in:
<http://www.rondebruin.nl/Google.htm>

Jim:
Great! Why the problem in first place with Safari? Man, I went on Apple
user group and some guy was saying it was fault of bad code and could not be
fixed, unless by hand over hours and hours. He had me going in Dreamweaver
to check validator.....

Anyway...What is the scenario in which I would want to do a round trip. It
sounds intriguing, but I'm curious what are instances you would use that.
Thanks again!!!!

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Kevs,

Concerning the dpi issue, first take a gander at this web site:
<http://www.proaxis.com/~ferris/docs/dpi-monitor.html>

Microsoft built Internet Explorer for Macintosh and Excel for Macintosh to
conform to the sensible Macintosh standard of 72 dpi which uses common sense
by making pixels = points so everything looks right on Mac monitors.

Windows monitors use 96 dpi. Apparently our friends in the OpenSource
community decided to go with the Windows way of doing things for their Mac
web browser. Hence Safari, Netscape, Camino and other browsers based on
OpenSource will display Mac created content poorly in favor of displaying
Windows created content better.

I'm not sure about all the times the "round-tripping" feature is useful, but
I used it to see how your workbook was supposed to look in Excel and so I
could test it without pestering you for a copy of the workbook. I think it
would be useful for anyone who wants to widely disseminate via the web
tabular data to Excel users.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

All responses should be made to this newsgroup within the same thread.
Thanks.

About Microsoft MVPs:
http://www.mvps.org/

Search for help with the free Google search Excel add-in:
<http://www.rondebruin.nl/Google.htm>

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