Saving an excel file as a web page

[scheels]

I have XP and Microsoft Offcie 2003 and I'm trying to save a file as a web page in html. But when I save it as a web page it saves as a htm. Are they the same? But when my co worker who is saving the same file on the same operating system does it, it saves as a html file. Do I have a setting wrong or am I doing something else.

Thanks

[ktkendall]

Hi:

I do believe they are the same. Once you save yours, can you than use your browser to open it? It isn't going to be the operating system that matters, it's probably the version or excel that may be causing a difference.

KK

[scheels]

When I open it, it opens as an excel file. Shouldn't it open just as info on a page?

[ktkendall]

What does the file name show now? If it truly got saved as a .htm file then it should open in your web browser when you click it. On my pc both .htm and .hyml files are set to open with IE. Folder options, file type tab is where you find that info.

[quartet-man]

Some very older browsers will only open .htm extensions. but newer ones open both .htm and .html as they are backwards compatible.

[scheels]

So is there a way to get it to be able to save as both htm. or html.?

[glc]

There is no difference between a .htm and a .html file.

[Statica]

Yes there is no difference between an HTML file and an HTM file .. but there is a huge difference between what Microsoft calls as htm/html and the rest of the world does. It isn't just html files but a whole bunch of other files that "tell" Excel to open up the file.
The good news is that if you took the htm/l file and put it up along with all the subfolders and images, it would open up for most people (again, with their love for standards .. test it out all you can!).

Short answer: On the other hand, if you wanted to test it out in your IE .. just open IE first .. then open the file in question through the FILE > OPEN menu. Or if you load everything onto a web server it should work. Or if you test it out with a good browser (firefox, opera) it will work.

Some would say that its fine because sometimes a spreadsheet is very complicated and people should be just able to save everything they want into a webpage in the click of a button .. but there are those who think that this is tantamount to code-bloat. And probably this is why its maddening .. imagine if people could share "htm" files that behave like office files.

Basically, one can create any "spreadsheet" into a web standards based page .. but it takes the proper knowledge.
If all you need is a simple column/row based spreadsheet (no formula etc etc) its very simple to do it with any WYSIWIG html editor (not anything from Microsoft). being able to calculate formula etc takes more knowledge in other code.

Addendum:
here's a simple solution, I tried quickly with a very simple file ..
* If you've got Gmail then you've got Google Docs .. start it up and import your XL spreadsheet into it.
* Now export your spreadsheet as an HTML file .. it should open up in a new browser window
* You can save that to your desktop as an htm or html file