Creating webpages with Excel Web App mashups

With Excel 2010, Microsoft also introduced the possibility to edit Excel documents on-line, using the "Excel Web App". If you have a live account, you can place an Excel 2010 file on your Onedrive. Anyone who has access to that skydrive folder can then open that Excel file on-line and edit it in the browser. Moreover, you can also embed that same Excel file on any web page.

Here is an interactive example:

Unfortunately, the capability to send commands between the website and the Excel container has been removed, yielding the pages that follow useless.

How this used to work and what else is possible is shown on the next pages of this article:

Table Of Contents

1. Preparations
2. JavaScript
3. Web controls
4. Demo with controls
5. Dynamic demo
6. Conclusion

Frequently asked Questions