Crystal Software make an interesting app called TextPipe Pro, which tries to bring the power of UNIX text filters to a Windows GUI. They have a bunch of other products which expand the text manipulation from working just with text (in files or in the clipboard) to working with mail attachments, Word documents and databases.
Office 2000 HTML Filter 2.0 is an Office add-on that produces more standard (and lighter) HTML, without all the peculiar non-standard, XMLish tags the original Office output filter uses. It can also export style sheets, or copy formatted text to the clipboard as more humane HTML then the regular copy/paste functionality.
I should get the demons guys to use it.
And I don’t know why it’s classified as an Office add-on on the Microsoft website – it only seems to be available in Word.
A few Excel programming sites that look useful: Julian’s Excel Macro (VBA) Tips for Beginners, The Spreadsheet Page and Alan’s Excel Goodies.
dive into mark:
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Yes, I have a day job, and yes, it currently involves creating a web-based application that works in Netscape 4. Life is full of little ironies.
He points to a nice site which tries to make some sense of how Netscape 4 goes berserk over certain CSS, even though it looks a bit too clean and nice to be true to the real horror of the situation.
This blog looks horrible in Netscape 4, BTW – especially the comments. Blame it on the “pure CSS” design.
“
ListControllerturns a simple
HTML list into a fully functional tree menu, like one sees on the left side
of file browsers and help systems. You can search through nodes, expand and
collapse the tree, and promote nodes to navigate down through deeply nested
lists. It can be added to any page with an HTML ordered or unordered list
(simply by including the right scripts), and it is backwards compatible with
older browsers. “
Very, very nice! But he hasn’t put up the scripts he links to – you have to go to his example, view source and puzzle it out…