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html form to populate into an excel sheet? patricia-gail@shaw.ca 04-07-2005
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Posted by patricia-gail@shaw.ca on April 7, 2005, 7:49 pm
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can anyone please help me?

i have made a form (actually a survey) in html and when the users
submit their results i need them to go into an excel form. or a .txt
file that can be later put into an excel form.

can anyone explain what i can do to make this happen?

thanks so much. i have spent so much time on trying to figure this
out. any help would be greatly appreciated.

thank you,

patty


Posted by Safalra on April 8, 2005, 5:23 am
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patricia-gail@shaw.ca wrote:
> i have made a form (actually a survey) in html and when the users
> submit their results i need them to go into an excel form. or a .txt
> file that can be later put into an excel form.

Use a server-side language (for example, PHP - ask your host what they
support) to write the data into a tab-separated text file (don't forget
to remove any tabs from the source data) - the data can then be copied
into Excel.

--
Safalra (Stephen Morley)
http://www.safalra.com/hypertext/


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