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St101
Hi, I've developed an estimating program on openoffice calc.. Now I would like to put this on my website. I have converted it to html and uploaded it to site. The links work but the user input's, nor the calculations do not work. Here are my questions:

1. Can I even do what I'm trying to do?

2. Are there special html calc. codes that I should be using instead?

3. If there are, where can I find them.

4. Is there a way of displaying my estimator as a standalone. In other words, it doesn't look like a spreadsheet. (columns,rows,cells,etc.)

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
pandy
HTML is just a markup language. It can't *do* anything at all. You need a programming language to do calculations. Either JavaScript or a language running on the server.
Darin McGrew
Please see the FAQ entry How do I use forms?
Brian Chandler
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Hi, I've developed an estimating program on openoffice calc.. Now I would like to put this on my website. I have converted it to html and uploaded it to site.


No, you haven't "converted it to html"; you have been tricked by software pretending to "convert to html", when it doesn't. Almost any menu entry called "Save as HTML" is useless.

You either rewrite your program in javascript (or a server side language), or you offer people the spreadsheet in the hope they can use it.
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