# Help putting excel charts on website

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 22, 2005, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-putting-excel-charts-on-website/313646 "2005-07-22T14:56:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Amethyst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@Amethyst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amethyst)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-putting-excel-charts-on-website/313646/1 "2005-07-22T14:56:57Z")

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Hi,

My husband needs some help with putting MS Excel charts on a website, so I offered to post his questions here to see if anyone on the SD could help. Here is his problem:

I have some data in Excel that I want to get on a web page. The previous  
version of the web page includes a chart and a table of data, both included  
in a single GIF image that is added to the page. But when I try to update  
the data I run into a few problems:

1. When I save the data from excel, the chart becomes a gif image, and the  
table is turned into an html table. How do I create a GIF that includes  
both? (I don’t want to have to re-write the rest of the page if I can avoid  
it).

2. When I attempt to scale the image, either on the web page as part of  
the IMG tag, or using a separate tool (I tried MGI Photosuite), the text  
resolution looks horrid.

I know it can work, it’s been done before. Unfortunately, there is NO  
information on how it was done. The person’s gone; the computers are all  
completely different; we’re even running completely different apps (I have  
no idea what they had access to previously).

Help ! (and thanks)

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**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-putting-excel-charts-on-website/313646/2 "2005-07-22T15:05:11Z")

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I’m asssuming that the File -\> Save as Web Page option has been measured and has been founding wanting.

If the Excel spreadsheet isn’t huge – and can all be seen legibly on the screen at one time – you can use Window’s Print Screen function to create a raster image of the spreadsheet. Make that a GIF, if you like in MS Paint or your favorite image editing software.