I have a sheet that is setup in a nice looking way for the public to see, all of the contents of the cells are based on formulas that reference different pages for different info. I can highlight a section of that sheet and save as web page to get a html file that looks identical for use on our website. The process works great, but I want to add more.
Even though the contents of the cells in the sheet are defined thru formulas, the resulting html has the values and not the formulas. I want to make those values mouseover links that call a Javascript...
Example...
In the HTML if it says,
I want to make it say this in the exact same place
Now, on top of simply that, the number 11111 used in my example, needs to come from a lookup table matched from the result of the value of the cell. So every link will end up having a different # based on data found in another worksheet. About 60 of these per html file, 2 files per day, every day.
I have looked into several different options on how to acomplish this. A custom export script based on xl2html is one possibility that I know I could eventually make work, but the time to complete that is an issue. I could also probably make a script that could go through the finished html and make the changes based on the refrence in the excel by matching strings and making replacements. I was hoping for a simplier solution using an excel formula of some kind. I may could even put the html into the formula itsself, so in excel it looks like html, but renders as html on the web page, except it turns my < into < so that doesn't work really unless there is a workaround. Can anyone help me with some more ideas? Or a direction to go?
This is for an extra work project I am doing to expand our website, and would love some insight from some of you talented people. One of the key things to remember is, the final process to do what I want to do needs to be quick as it will be repeated ad-nausum and I dont have the time at work for a drawn out process done twice a day.
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