Importing data from an excel spreadsheet

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dlanden

I was wondering if anyone has ever imported data from an excel spreadsheet
into frontpage? I have created websites with FP but do consider myself to be
a novice. What I am attempting to do is a create a directory (website) and
my data is stored in excel and would like to keep future data there as well.
Can anyone give me some direction?
 
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Steve Easton

What do you want to do with the "data' in the spreadsheet??


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dlanden

I want to create a directory type website (something like Dmoz.org) from the
data in excel. You would be creating a page in FP with a category for
"Business" and then you may have a subcategory of "Services" below that.
Each of these categories and subcategories would have lists of data (a
website and description etc).
 
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Steve Easton

You would need to save the spreadsheet as a html file.
But, it creates hugely bloated web pages.

It would be best to use a database application for what you want to do, depending upon which
scripting languages your host supports.

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dlanden

My webhosting plan is almost up (it expires in a couple of months) so I could
switch it if need be. Would you recommend a certain database application?
 
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Steve Easton

Which version of Windows and FrontPage are you using??
What server version and OS are you hosted on now??


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dlanden

Sorry it took so long to get the information. I am running FrontPage 2003
and Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES.
 
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