You can "push" data from Excel into IE using automation, but unless
you're running very low security settings you will not be able to
automate Excel from within IE.

What exactly do you want to do?

Tim


"Gixxer_J_97" wrote in message
...
hi all,

is there a way to have a web page (html or php) read portions of an
excel
file?

if anyone has an example on how to read a cell from an .xls file
into a text
field for web display, or a range of cells into a dropdown box - i'd
greatly
appreciate it!

and secondly - is it possible to do the reverse - write to the
file - or
call the macros in the file?

tia!

J