Posted by Rob Waaijenberg on 06/25/07 20:25

JohnW-Mpls schreef:
> From an email I just sent to my church for whom I maintain their web
> page.
>
> Pleasant Surprise
>
> Today I prepared the Communion helpers schedules for the web -
> provided to me as Excel files which I converted for posting on the
> web. Previously, I have had to convert & post these as PDF files
> but now I can revert to posting them as simple HTML files - easy to
> edit/update.
>
> The change is because I recently starting using Open Office rather
> then Microsoft's Office (big difference: $0 vs over $100s). Open
> Office does HTML conversions neatly - into simple HTML code (the
> "Save As" thing). In contrast, MicroSoft Excel's conversions for
> the web include excessive use of css (Cascade Style Sheets) coding
> which bloats the file to three times previous size and makes it
> almost impossible to edit. (The extra precision of MS's conversions
> is much more than we need).
>
> Up till now, I converted Excel files to PDF for the web - and PDF
> is always 3 or more times the size and complexity of straight HTML.
>
> -
> JohnW-Mpls

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Rob

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