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This is great advice! I had never considered creating raw HTML tables of data on my websites for the express purpose of having end users connect to them with Excel.



Here's a way to easily do it with style:

http://datatables.net/1.5-beta/extras/TableTools/


Did you read the story?

You're describing a technology to make a web page that can save data in Excel format. The story describes how to help users set up complex Excel spreadsheets that run a web report behind the scenes whenever they are refreshed. I believe that the latter capability is much more useful to users than the former.


I read the story.

My comment was a reply to a comment (not the story itself) which I felt was germane.




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