MS-Excel can edit HTML?

[yesthattom]

Holy cow! Load a .html file into MS-Excel and it just works! Sure, it adds a lot of style-sheet stuff, but I can remove that later.

I edit HUGE tables in HTML. I've grown fairly proficent at it, but it is still a pain. (People are amazed at how quickly I can write HTML in vi in real-time, including tables and such. Someone once told me I should sell tickets.) Despite this, I'd rather not have to. Now I can just load them into MS-Excel and use all of the editing tricks and keyboard shortcuts that it includes. Finally a way to sort by a column!

Best of all, when I'm done, I can save it as HTML and my non-Windows friends can read the data.

I think this is going to be a big time-saver.

Comments

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

And I thought I was a freak for using vi (well, vim) to edit HTML.

I feel a little more normal now.

[jss]

You should feel normal. PowerPoint presentations aside, I wrote and maintain a several-hundred flat-HTML-file web site for fun. That doesn't count the tens of sites of varying sizes I've maintained for work. All using vi (or equivalent).

Doesn't EVERYBODY export table data to a flat file, use sort and awk and sed to reformat and reorder, then import it back into $EDITOR for HTML reformatting as a table? Hm.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

actually, cut, sort, awk, and sed are things I have to get better at.

[nulldevice.livejournal.com]

I love to freak out people at interviews when they ask what my favorite HTML editor is, and I say "vi."

"But...what about stylesheets?"
"What about them? You can do them in vi."
"XSLT?"
"vi."

Notepad is for wimps.

[sweh.livejournal.com]

Stylesheets? Bah! If it doesn't display cleaning in Netscape 2 then I don't wanna know :-)

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

OpenOffice.

Fuck Redmond.