Writing Archive

Javascript Export HTML table to MS Excel (JScript)

Here’s a little code snippet to export an HTML table to MS Excel through utilising ActiveXObject(“Excel.Application”) from Internet Explorer.

The JavaScript (in this case utilising Microsoft’s JScript) runs over the table displayed pulling out the relevant data and exporting into the instantiated copy of Excel. This is a working example …

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Organisational Expectations of an Intranet

Organisations anticipate a return on the investment involved in implementing Intranets expressed in financial terms or intangible benefits; an expectation their Intranet will either save money, enhance efficiency or both.

Organisations however, are not cohesive bodies with unified needs or interests; instead they are formed by individuals, each with their own …

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Export Access to Excel with Custom Headers

Have you noticed how the “out the box” solution to export your dataset from MS Access to MS Excel doesn’t give much room to give custom headers to your worksheet?

Through utlising ActiveX you can instantiate a copy of MS Excel in memory to add in your own custom headers …

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Google margin

Is it just me or has google added a margin around their search results? An ID of ‘gsr’ on the body tag appears to apply ‘margin: 3px 8px;’ bumping the results in at each side!

Clocked this on Tuesday night and thought it was a mistake with my setup or …

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