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Your approach doesn't meet the requirements Barry originally stated. He
said "Users must be able to edit the spreadsheets (in Excel) and have them
automatically update in the document."
If all you're doing is embedding screenshots, what's the value of using
Frame? One can do that quite readily with just about any tool. Actually, my
opinion is that this project is probably best approached from a
Microsoft-product standpoint. Using Word is probably the best option but
would require someone at an expert level with all products concerned.
Where it might get tricky is if the spreadsheets exceeded a single page. I
haven't mucked around with that aspect of things because I don't normally
embed Excel objects into Word.
Mike
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-----------------------Original Message-----------------------
>From: Jonathan Stoppi [mailto:stops -at- qualum -dot- com]
>To: TECHWR-L [mailto:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com]
>Date: 4/24/2002 2:04:00 AM
>Subject: Re: Publish 400+ Excel Spreadsheets?
>
>
>Barry Thistlethwaite asks:
>
>>>I have a potential client who needs to create documents containing
>400 to 1500 Excel spreadsheets for print and display. Users must be able
to edit the spreadsheets (in Excel) and have them automatically update in
the document. The user must also be able to delete and add
>spreadsheets without screwing up the entire flow. He needs an active,
>auto-generated TOC. <<
>
>As previously indicated by my Honourable Colleagues, trying this in Word
is only to be recommended if your previous job was driving ssemitrailers of
nitroglycerin.
>
>My approach, given the number of spreadsheets involved and the other
requirements, is to do the following:
>1. Create a Frame doc from a suitable template
>2. Screenshot the Excel files as serially numbered GIFs saved in a
dedicated "Images" directory within the same directory as the Frame doc.
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