Hacks #95-100
Excel has long
had connections to other members of the Microsoft Office family, as
well as to databases. With the growth of the Web, Excel developed
HTML export capabilities as well, making it easy to publish
information created in Excel. Over the last few years, however,
Microsoft has developed features that enable you to use Excel as an
interface to information published anywhere, and to get your
information out of Excel and into other formswhatever forms
you want, given whatever data you have. At the same time, a number of
developers have created ways to get information into and out of Excel
spreadsheets without using Excel, and these also have become
important gateways.