Formatting data from a spreadsheet into a page

[Mac Hine]

I've just checked it on my machine - you will have to juggle with page length, placeholder length and also the placeholder window in which you paste the code. Resize the length of that window until you can get the 100 rows in.

OK.
Give me a clue on "placeholder window"?

I was under the impression (erroneously?) that I create a rectangle, adjust page length & placeholder length, then use webproperties>placeholder to create the placeholder and use "html code body" to paste the data into?
Is it this "placeholder window" that's preventing pasting the entire clipboard contents into the "html code body"?

[penmore]

Sorry, perhaps my bad name - yes, the window you paste the html code into.

[Mac Hine]

I've created three placeholders (although I think I might need four or five). What I can't manage to do is to get the three lined up to make them appear as one continuous table.
For example, I have placeholder three located overlapping entirely placeholder two, in order to get them display anywhere near in the correct order. Tried altering the placeholder sizes to compensate, two are 500px, another 300px. I still can't get them to line up.

If I could paste all the data into one placeholder, that would maybe be alright, but as I said before, there seems to be a limit as to how much data I can paste into one placeholder.

I'm not sure this idea is as practical as I first thought, unfortunately.

[Egg Bramhill]

It's quite straight forward using Google Sheets. Here's an example. Once set up in Xara you never need to touch it again. All the editing is done in Google Drive which updates the folder every 5 minutes once a change is made.

Edit: Cross posting. There is no limit. As you can see this placeholder holds 100 rows Here's a link to a online example. Note that FireFox does mess the display slightly (by adding scroll bars) but IE Chrome & Opera are fine.

[penmore]

I've created three placeholders (although I think I might need four or five). What I can't manage to do is to get the three lined up to make them appear as one continuous table.
For example, I have placeholder three located overlapping entirely placeholder two, in order to get them display anywhere near in the correct order. Tried altering the placeholder sizes to compensate, two are 500px, another 300px. I still can't get them to line up.

If I could paste all the data into one placeholder, that would maybe be alright, but as I said before, there seems to be a limit as to how much data I can paste into one placeholder.

I'm not sure this idea is as practical as I first thought, unfortunately.

What you are probably doing wrong is that you are creating three tables with however many rows in each.
What you need to do is create one html page with your 100 rows in it then copy three blocks of that into
Three placeholder - the size of the placeholders isn't critical.

I have done a quick example of how to do it below - notice that the first placeholder starts with a <table and the last placeholder closes the </table> which puts all your rows into one table.

You will see the row numbers in the html code and when you view it in a webpage.

If anything is unclear, please just ask.

Pete

[Egg Bramhill]

Sorry Pete, I'm either being very thick (as well as ignored by Mac Hine, as is Acorn) but what am I missing here?

[penmore]

Sorry Pete, I'm either being very thick (as well as ignored by Mac Hine, as is Acorn) but what am I missing here?

Egg, you have a Private Message.

[Egg Bramhill]

Rather than use the html generated source table data, just post the Excel created html file to your server and load this html file into a placeholder. No issues with Excels pagination (A4). The whole htm webpage loads