Could anyone tell me what is the best way to save an Excelsheet to a different format? I've tried using the Win32::OLE module and also have tried to use Spreadsheet-WriteExcel, SpreadSheet-WriteExcelXML. We are basically trying to save it to HTML so that the results can be displayed on a Web page.

One of the things that did work was saving the Excelsheet in XML, but we are having an issue when trying to view the Excelsheet on the web page the display is not quiet right. We are missing I believe the traslator between the Web interface for IIS 6.0 and XML. Is anyone familiar with what is needed.

First of all thank you all for the responses. I will like to clarify my questions:

1. We get flat file which we create an Excelsheet.
2. The data needs to be displayed on an IIS 6 Server.
We would like to take the Excel file we generate from the flat file, to HTML format.
something like this:

use strict;
use Win32::OLE qw(in with);
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Excel';
$Win32::OLE::Warn = 3; # die on errors...
my $Excel = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Excel.Application') || Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application', 'Quit');
# application or open new
my $Book = $Excel->Workbooks->Open("C:\\\\Copy of test.xls"); # open Excel file
my $Sheet = $Book->Worksheets(1);
$Book->SaveAs('c:\\t.htm','FileFormat:=xlHtml');
$Book->Close;

Thanks.

In reply to Converting EXCEL Workbooks to HTML by jcc2007

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