controlling an excel workbook from an html

lalbatros

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Am I dreaming?
Would it be possible to control an excel workbook from an html file?

My aim is to provide a simple interactive tutorial or help for an excel application.
I simply want to activate some sheets, or to select some range, when the reader clicks some hyperlink on an html page.

Ideally, I would preffer to have the help started from the workbook, not the opposite.
 

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I browsed a little bit and can be more precise now.
It is all about using VBScript on an html and communicating with excel.

Where I need solutions or ideas is:

- how to launch the html from excel and passing a reference to the activeWorkbook at the same time
- how to use VBscript for an hyperlink (not an excel question)

With these two solutions, I could go on.
 
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Hi,

As it happens often, I am not the first on the topic.
Here I found something close to what I am working on:

http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2004/10/21/creating-help-files/

My problem is (was) that I wanted this help system to interact with the excel workbook.
Actually, I could do it using the getObjet method in vbscript within the html.
However, there was an obstacle: getObject isn't allowed for security.
Therefore, I created a tiny activex to bypass this limitation, and it works.

One problem still remains.
On first hypelink-click a safety popup appears: "An activex control on this page might be unsafe ...".

This really a bad message when a user browse an help file.

So my question changes now: how can I get some freedom and create an help file that interacts smoothly with my workbook?
Do I really need to go for the standard help system?
Does the standard help system not have the same limitation?
Should I get another component that will spare my time on this stupid question?

At least I have one advantage, I will be able to install anything onmy user's machines.
But I will not be allowed to change any setting.
 
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