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This document discusses two methods for exporting Excel data to HTML format - generating HTML via VBA code or using Excel's built-in Publish to HTML feature. The VBA method allows full control over the HTML output but requires coding. The Publish feature is easier to use but has less formatting control. Both options were demonstrated with sample code provided to convert an Excel range to a basic HTML table.

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Export Excel To HTML - Convert Tables To HTML - The Analyst Cave - Excel, VBA, Programming and More

This document discusses two methods for exporting Excel data to HTML format - generating HTML via VBA code or using Excel's built-in Publish to HTML feature. The VBA method allows full control over the HTML output but requires coding. The Publish feature is easier to use but has less formatting control. Both options were demonstrated with sample code provided to convert an Excel range to a basic HTML table.

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EXCEL, MS OFFICE, WEB

EXPORT EXCEL TO HTML – CONVERT


TABLES TO HTML
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OCTOBER 17, 2014 | ANALYSTCAVE

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I received an interesting question today – on how to easily publish an Excel file to a


web page. Although there are a ton of ways to approach this problem (ranging from
Excel Services in SharePoint to Excel Interop or ClosedXML) let us say we want to
restrict to using only Excel and VBA. Printing Excel to HTML is a very useful feature if
you want to publish your data/Workbook online.

The concept itself is very simple as HTML files are text files and therefore the problem
is only to structure the data correctly in VBA before saving it to a HTML file.

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I wanted to explore today 2 options:

Generating a HTML file via VBA


Generating a HTML file via the Publish feature in Excel

Both options are fairly useful ones – with the first one offering more flexibility and the
second one being much easier to use.

Generating HTML via VBA


So lets start with the simple example of generating an Excel file from scratch just
with VBA.

We have the following Excel table (ranging from A1 to C3):

Excel table

The Code
1 Sub Test()
2 RangeToHtml Range("A1:C3"), "test.html"
3 End Sub
4
5 Sub RangeToHtml(rng As Range, fileName As String)
6 Dim resBeg As String
7 resBeg = "<html><head></head><body><table>"
8 resEnd = "</table></body></html>"
9 For i = 1 To rng.Rows.Count
10 '---Rows---
11 resBeg = resBeg & "<tr>"
12 For j = 1 To rng.Columns.Count
13 '---Columns---
14 resBeg = resBeg & "<td>"
15 resBeg = resBeg & rng.Cells(i, j).Value
16 resBeg = resBeg & "</td>"
17 Next j
18 resBeg = resBeg & "</tr>"
19 Next i
20 Call SaveStringToFile(resBeg & resEnd, fileName)
21 End Sub
22
23 Sub SaveStringToFile(str As String, fileName As String)
24 Open fileName For Output As #1
25 Print #1, str
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26 Close #1
27 End Sub

Excel to HTML: The result


Lets see the result (actual HTML posted to this page):

Col1 Col2 Col3

1 2 3

4 5 6

Nothing extraordinary – just a very simple table without any formatting.


What the code does is traverse through the Excel Range replacing rows with the

tag and columns (or rather cells) with the

tag inserting the cell’s contents within. A very simple example.

Excel Publish to HTML feaure


The Publish to HTML feature is a neat capability that allows you to export your entire
Workbook as a HTML web page through which you can easily navigate. You can easily
Publish your Excel Workbook from VBA or directly from Excel.

To publish the Excel file go to Save As and select Publish to configure the publish
options:

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Publish to HTML Excel feature

Alternatively you can use the VBA code below to achieve the same:

1 With ActiveWorkbook.PublishObjects.Add(xlSourceRange, _
2 "PublishToHtml.htm", ";Sheet1", "$A$1:$C$4", _
3 xlHtmlStatic, "PublishToHtml", "")
4 .Publish (True)
5 End With

Easy as that! The additional advantage is that the Publish to Excel feature will keep
some of your formatting settings e.g. bold, italic fonts etc. Some, however, usually
will be omitted e.g. borders.

Conclusions
Without resorting to external solutions there are least 2 easy options of generating
html files from Excel. Personally I would prefer to have control over my HTML file and
use VBA possibly adding my own css styles and formatting.

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