Hello Lea, > I am very interested in your last comment. I omitted to > mention that when I > read and display the .xls file I need to render it in the > browser so that all > the functions work and within an instance of an embedded > Excel application. > > The real crux of my problem is how to get access to the > information and the > resulting calculations that the user has performed in this > spreadsheet since I > am assuming the spreadsheet needs to be an embedded OLE > object? If I use a > form/table I will loose the functions and the Excel functionality?
What you want is to have a full excel in the webbrowser. This can't be done by POI. One way to do such a thing is to use excel embedded in a webpage. But that's a active-x specific stuff and so will only work when the following conditions are meet: - Browser is internet explorer 5.x or 6.x on Windows (No Mac and Linux) - Excel is installed on the maschine where the browser is running Another way would be to use a product like: http://www.exceleverywhere.com/ Andr� --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing List: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail2.html#poi The Apache Jakarta Poi Project: http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/
