How do I show an embedded excel file in a WebPage?

calendar_today Asked Oct 3, 2008
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Question posted 2008 · +6 upvotes

I want to allow an Excel report to be viewed embedded in a WebPage… is there a way?

  • I don’t want to use an ActiveX, or OWC (Office Web Components), I just want to open an existing file from the internet explorer application.

  • I don’t want users to download and then open it.

Using an iframe wouldn’t be a problem, but my preliminary tests weren’t successful

Any ideas? Is it at all possible?

Accepted answer +7 upvotes

You should try using the Excel Web App Embed feature that lets you embed tables and charts from Excel directly on your Web Page. You can even let users interact with the spreadsheet so that they can sort and filter data and use your spreadsheets formulas to calculate make their own calculations all without altering the source.

The Excel Web App and storage is all free from Microsoft. Any data you embed on your Web page can be viewed by all the major destkop and mobile browsers and when you update your spreadsheet the data on your web pages is automatically updated as well.

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