Excel spreadsheets from HTML source

Subject: Excel spreadsheets from HTML source
From: Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca>
To: Tom Johnson <tomjohnson1492 -at- gmail -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 14:03:13 -0800

Hey Tom,

This one I know. Excel has the ability to pull table data directly from the
Web. Check out the different options under the Data tab.

-Tony


On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Tom Johnson <tomjohnson1492 -at- gmail -dot- com>
wrote:

> Along these same lines, does anyone know how to export content from an HTML
> source to Excel spreadsheets? Our delivery group uses Excel spreadsheets to
> customize the request elements customers will use in an API (filtering the
> body request down from hundred of elements to a manageable handful). Other
> than somehow generating a CSV export from a source, I have never tried to
> single source content into a spreadsheet output.
>
> Tom
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