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Year 2000
notice: All LiveWebs Ltd products are Year 2000 compliant
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| There are various limitations to what LiveWebs can
accomplish; One key limitation for users of Windows 2000 and later
is that LiveWebs is unable to manage your dial up connection to the
internet, in other words it requires an internet connection to be
available when it publishes. This is only of significance to dial-up
users, and users of ADSL, leased lines, or any other form of 'always on'
connection are unaffected.
Other issues:
Web publication is a
substantially inexact science. Clearly, when it comes to spreadsheets, precision over
formatting for example is key. LiveWebs's main goal is to deliver this precision to the
extent that it is feasible, practical and desirable. However, you should be aware that the
following formatting functionality is not offered by LiveWebs: |
 | the ability to control the height of table cells
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| the ability to include drawing and other design
overlay objects
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| the ability to have individual cell border formatting
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| Expanding on this last point, again this is a
limitation of the original HTML web format, but as one of the three main tasks of LiveWebs is to try to
convert a spreadsheet as faithfully as possible, it is important to realise that there is
one key area of spreadsheet formatting which it cannot faithfully represent: cell borders
in a spreadsheet. In LiveWebs and native HTML, the option is either to have the same border around every cell
or no borders at all. One way of overcoming this is to use 'Cascading Style Sheets', but they
can cause your web/HTML files to
bloat in size. LiveWebs does not use Cascading Style Sheets, and there are
no plans currently to produce a future version of LiveWebs which does. |
| MS Excel 2000 does
an almost perfect job of converting spreadsheets - but it uses huge amounts of hidden code
to do so, resulting in large HTML files. It does this by (sort of artificially) hiding a
spreadsheet component in the browser. The code it is using is not strictly speaking the
'plain old HTML' that most of the rest of the world has been using to date. The process
can also be quite confusing and for best results everyone who you want to view the pages
has to have Excel 2000 on their machine - and it's fairly expensive. But - depending on
your corporate environment, it might be the solution for precision conversion.
LiveWebs is the best of the rest in our opinion - it's certainly a whole heap better
than using Excel 97's native conversion. We hope you find it helpful. |
| The above list of limitations is not exhaustive, but
covers issues which LiveWebs perceives to be key. |
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