User`s guide
view
the
linked
sections
with
a
Web
browser.
Web
browsers
take
little
or
no
training
to
use.
Thus
people
who
are
new
to
computers
can instantly benefit from viewing
documents
with
them.
Create a simple
Web
page
HTML
markup
codes
are
sur-
rounded
by
special
markers
to
set
them off from the text displayed
by
the
browser
. These symbols are the
right
and
left angle brackets
shown
as follows: "<"
and
">".
HTML
markup
codes are usu-
ally included
in
pairs, one to
mark
the
start
of a
browser
instruction,
and
one
to
mark
the
end
of
a
browser
instruction. The
end
of a
browser
instruction starts
with
the
following
two
characters:
"</".
There are only four tags neces-
s
ary
to
create
a
Web
page
.
They
are:
l.<HTML>,
2.
<HEAD>,
3.
<TITLE>,
and
4.
<BODY>.
Thus
the following
document
,
produced
by
your
favorite
word-processor
that
produces
plain
ASCII text, is a
legal HTML
document
that can be
displayed
in
a Web browser.
--
begin example
------
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<
TITLE
> First Doc Title
</
TITLE
>
</
HEAD>
<
BODY
>
My First HTML Document.
</
BODY
>
</
HTML>
--
end
example
------
The <HTML>
tag
defines this as
an
HTML
document.
The
<HEAD>
identifies this as
the
beginning
of
the
document
and
includes
docu-
ment
information, s
uch
as the title
of
the
document
enclosed
in
the
<TITLE> tag. (In this circumstance,
the
title is
"First
Doc Title".) The
information
you
see displayed as a
Web
page
is
contained
in
the
<BODY> of
the
document. (In this
circumstance the
only
information
that
will be displayed
by
your
Web
brow
s
er
is
"My
First
HTML
Document.")
If
you've
been
following along,
use
MEMO
and
just
save
the
text
above, as
plain
ASCII text, to a file
called FIRST.HTM
and
then
try
to
view
it
with
your
favorite
Web
browser
like HV.
Be
sure
to include
the .htm extension, since this iden-
tifies it as HTML.
HTML
tags are important,
not spaces or carriage returns
Web browsers
running
on
different
computers
pretty
much
decide for
themselves
how
to
wrap
lines
of
text. The end-of-line characters
or
leading
spaces
you
may
have
put
into
an
HTML
document
will likely
be
ignored.
This
means
you
must
s
pecifically
mark
paragraphs,
or
cause
line breaks.
Thus
the
docu-
ment
you
created above
would
be
displayed
in
a
Web
browser
the
same as the following:
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>First Doc
Title< /TITLE><
/HEAD
><
BODY
> My
First
HTML
Docum
e
nt.
</
BODY>
</
HTM
L>
As
you
can
see,
HTML
is
pretty
basic
and
is simple
enough
for the
average
person
to learn the basics.
Why
use 1-2-3 to
create
Web
pages?
After
you've
created a few HTML
documents,
updating
certain frag-
ments
of
them
(especially the lists
and
tables)
can
get
pretty
monoto-
nous.
Word
processors
are
useful
for text
entry
,
but
they
tend
to
be
more static
with
information that is
in
them.
Spreadsheets,
by
contrast, are
more
dynamic.
Just
think
about
what
a spreadsheet is useful for.
It
is
great
for
crunching
numbers,
working
with
tables,
and
updating
information
in
formula
driven
tem-
plates
that
would
otherwise take a
long time to
work
through
manual-
ly.
They
also
manipulate
string
(text)
data
very
well
with
1-2-3's
string formulas, which can be a big
time
saving
tool
over
MEMO.
Macros
can
also
be
used
to
speed
the
process of
data
entry,
to
save
files
with
unique
names,
or
even to
import
information
from
other
HTML documents.
Why
take
data
from a spread-
sheet
and
re-enter
that
data
in
a
word-processor,
when
you
can
do
it
directly
from
1-2-3? A
spread-
sheet is useful for directly creating
Web
pages
that
benefit
from
th
e
template
paradigm.
This
includes
fairly
repetitive
activities
such
as
daily, weekly,
monthly
and
quar-
terly
reports
used
by
all
commer-
cial enterprises.
Of
course,
if
you
have
a
Windows
95
machine
and
the
most
recent
Microsoft,
Corel
or
Lotus
software,
you
can use those tools to
easily
create
HTML
documents.
However,
many
people
don't
have
those tools
or
are
not
always
near
those
tools
when
they
want
to
do
something. Instead, they can easily
roll
their
own
tools
with
1-2-3
on
the
palmtop
and
do
this
anytime
,
anywhere.
Creating text files from 1-2-3
In
the
November/December
1996
issue I demonstrated
how
easy it is
to
copy-and-paste
information
from
a
1-2-3
spreadsheet
into
MEMO
.
Using
that
same
tech-
nique, it
would
be
easy
to
copy
a
small
amount
of tabular
data
from
1-2-3
to
an
HTML
document
in
MEMO. Using the tag <PRE>, tab-
ular
data
copied-and-pasted from a
1-2-3 worksheet is displayed
in
its
original format on a Web browser.
Otherwise,
extra
spaces
will
be
ignored
or
otherwise
displayed
improperly.
The
copy-and-paste
technique
work
s fine if the
amount
of tabular
data
is
limited.
The
copied
data
goes into the
palmtop
's clipboard,
THE
HP
PALMTOP PAPER
SEPTEMBER
/ OCTOBER 1997
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