Creating webpages with Excel Web App mashups
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Conclusion
Excel Web Applications and their ability to interact with your web page using JavaScript open up a whole new world of possibilities. Now you can build Excel models your users can interact with using your web site. Also, this enables you to create mashups in which you combine data from multiple sources; you can grab data from other websites and put that into your Excel model and have it show the results on your website.
Further reading
To get this all working I used information from the following sources:
MSDN: Using the Excel Services JavaScript API to Work with Embedded Excel Workbooks
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