| Q: Why do I need LiveWebs when I can
use 'Save as HTML...' in the Excel 97 file menu or copy and paste my spreadsheet table
into FrontPage or some other HTML editor? |
A: The basic premise of
LiveWebs is that it should:
 | produce a web-format page which reproduces a spreadsheet as
faithfully as possible |
| it gets that page to the right location on your network or
web server |
| the manageability of the process is such that conversion of
LiveWebs-enabled spreadsheets becomes a 'press the button' no-brainer. LiveWebs was
designed to bring these three areas of functionality together in one application for the
first time, excelling particularly at faithfully representing the spreadsheet. If you have
used any other applications to try to achieve any or all of the above, you should have no
difficulty confirming whether you find LiveWebs the superior tool available. |
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| To find out more, why not review the Feature List or download
the 30 day free trial evaluation version? |
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| Q: Why do I need LiveWebs if
Microsoft Office 2000 is offering HTML as a native file format? |
| A: Microsoft Office 2000 is
very good at web publishing in many ways, but there are a number of issues to be aware of,
issues which we feel make LiveWebs a contender for providing web publishing capabilities
within Excel, whether you are deciding to upgrade to Excel 2000 or whether you already
have it. Click here for a comparison of the web publishing
capabilities of the two products. |
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| Q: Is LiveWebs Y2K compliant? |
| A: Yes |
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| Q: When I do a one off LiveWebs
conversion, can I carry on working in Excel while LiveWebs is processing? |
| A: No - LiveWebs is
programmed using Excel VBA - just like running a normal macro, Livewebs takes over Excel
with an egg-timer until it is done converting. However, it aims to do this pretty quickly - on, say, a
300 MHZ PC, expect 1) a single, simple page to take about half a second, a 10 web page
conversion with lots of formatting to take about 5 seconds, and a 10 web page conversion
with lots of embedded graphs to take about 20 seconds - graphs add significantly to
processing time |
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| Q: Can I work in other applications
while LiveWebs is processing? |
| A: Yes - although depending
on your PC specification, the number of pages your are converting, and what else you want
to work on, it may slow your system down a bit |
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| Q: If I am using LiveWebs Markets's
scheduled updating, what's the smallest realistic interval between updates? |
| A: It depends on what you
are converting (see above). If you set a big workbook to publish ten web pages once per
second, and that process takes 10 seconds, then LiveWebs will be updating every 10
seconds, rather than every one second which you intended. Not only that but it will be
completely tying up Excel with the egg-timer, meaning you can't work on it at the same
time. It certainly can do this, but we would imagine that, for most people working on a
spreadsheet which takes 5 seconds to publish, an updating period of say 5 or 10 minutes
will be realistic. LiveWebs is not intended to provide the sort of real-time tick by tick background updating that
large corporates with considerable resources could deploy on a big server. LiveWebs can
update at once per second, and with a small, simple spreadsheet page, it's just about
practical, but for anything more we believe most users will be comfortable using updating
periods which span at least a few minutes if they are trying to work on the spreadsheet at
the same time - why not try it out, and see how it works for your
needs |
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| Q: Can I use LiveWebs Markets's
scheduled updating on more than one open workbook at the same time? |
| A: Yes - ultimately, the
ability to have more than one workbook updating on a schedule is limited by a combination
of the size and complexity of the workbooks open, the frequency of scheduled updates and
the specification of your system, but LiveWebs Markets itself does not limit the number of
workbooks which can be open and updating. |
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| Q: A problem
I've run into before converting Excel 97 spreadsheets with other HTML-conversion programs
is that I might have a spreadsheet cell whose contents is long and is displayed over
adjacent empty cells but when converted to HTML, the table cell wraps the text and expands
downwards. How does LiveWebs deal with this? |
| A: LiveWebs employs an
algorithm which attempts to use any empty cells to the left and/or right of a given cell
(depending on its contents/alignment etc ) in a spreadsheet to spread the contents of a
cell as faithfully as possible in the resulting HTML table, avoiding this problem in most
cases. |
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| Q: I used 'File save as HTML...' on
my spreadsheet and where I had used the 'HYPERLINK()' formula in Excel 97, there was no
corresponding link showing in the converted web page? Does LiveWebs have this problem? |
| A: No, LiveWebs
converts all hyperlinks, however you have set them up in Excel 97. |
