How-To Geek

OK, I have a very simple Excel (MS Office 2010) file with 2 rows & columns of text. I perform a "Save as" web page and I can view the htm file perfectly fine on my local hard drive using both my IE 9.0 browser and Firefox. When I upload the corresponding .htm file, and the folder (named "filename_files") with the associated .xml and sheet001.htm files, to my ISP domain I can no longer view the file correctly and just get what looks to be incorrectly formatted html.

The file is Book1.xls. When converted, I've uploaded 'Book1.htm' and the 'Book1_files' folder and files underneath.

Any clues as to why I can view it correctly on my local hard drive in my browser but not when uploaded to my ISP server?

Here's the link to the URL that doesn't work - or at least shows badly formatted html code:

http://abs-cards.net/Book1.htm

But note, that this is the exact file that MS Excel produces when I perform a "Save As web page" function. I've also uploaded the associated Book1_files folder and files underneath.

Here's what it looks like on my local hard drive: http://abs-cards.net/Book1.png

I've contacted my ISP and they're no help - they say it's a coding problem (duh) and won't help unless I pay their web design service. As I said, this is what MS Excel produces and should work on their server as it does on my local hard drive. Any help is appreciated!

OK, I just tried something. I deleted everything after the FIRST </html> tag, uploaded the modified file, now called Book2.htm (and associated files), and it now seems to work. So here's the original, UNaltered Excel-to-HTML file:

http://abs-cards.net/Book1.htm

and the modified:

http://abs-cards.net/Book2.htm

Note that this is from the same .xlsx file, just using a different filename. So why does Excel produce a lot of extra HTML code that seems to mess things up?