User`s guide
HOW
TO
USE:
Web
enable
your
1-2-3
data
ABC
D E F G H
1
INPUT
RANGE:
2
3 Title
June
Report
4
Month
_
end
June
30, 1996
5 OUTPUT RANGE:
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
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<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>
June
Report
</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><PRE>
ABC Project
Financial
Statements
Month
Ended
June
30,1996
Cash
Work
in
Progress
Accounts
Receivable
$ 300,000
5,000,000
1,000,000
18 Total Assets $ 6,300,000
19
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20
</PRE></BODY></HTML>
21
Box
1:
Creating
an
HTML
file
in
Lotus
1-2-3.
which
cannot
handle
large
chunks
of
data.
So
what
do
you
do
if
you
have
a
larger
report?
Easy -
you
print
the
report
to
a file.
Printing
to a file,
instead
of to
a
printer,
creates a plain-text
docu-
ment
like
those
used
by
Web
browsers.
Since
you
can
print
to a
file,
you
might
as
well
put
all
the
HTML tags
in
the
print
range
and
create
an
HTML
file.
Steps to print to a
file
Let's
walk
through
a
simple
exam-
ple.
The
spreadsheet
in
Box 1
has
two
ranges,
an
input
range
and
output
range.
The
input
range
allows
data
to
be
entered
in
cells
B3
and
E3,
which
in
turn
flow
through
to
the
output
range
below. Cell A7
has
the
following
formula:
+/1
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>/I
&B
3. Cell A12
has
the
following
for-
mula:
+/1
Month
Ended
/I
&E3.
Notice
that
entries
in
the
input
range
flow
through
to
the
output
range
. The
output
range
is located
in
cells
A7
through
H20. To
print
to
a file,
press
(MENU)
Print
File. Set
the
file
name
as
96JUN.HTM,
set
the
range
as cells
A7
through
H20.
Set
Options
Margins
None.
Press
Other
Unformatted.
Press
Quit
Go.
This
creates
an
HTML
file
which
can
then
be
seen
by
HV,
or
you
can
view
it
with
MEMO
or
the
FILER
view
option.
Of
course,
you
could
get
much
more
complicated
than
this
simple
example.
The
purpose
is
just
to
give
you
an
idea
of
a
few
of
the
possibilities.
This
is
where the growth
is
Expect to see
intranets
continue
to
grow
at
an
exponential
rate
between
now
and
the
year
2000.
This
powerful
new
medium
has
completely
taken
the
software
and
hardware
industry
by
storm.
Virtually
all
the
major
hardware
and
software
vendors
have
seen
the
handwriting
on
the
wall
and
are
racing
to
Web-enable
their
major
products.
My
research,
including
visits
in
November
1996
28
THE HP PALMTOP PAPER SEPTEMBER/ OCTOBER 1997
to
the
Fall COMDEX
in
Las Vegas
and
in
March
1997
to
the
Spring
Internet
World
in
Los
Angeles,
convinced
me
that
the
Internet
and
intranets
and
widespread
use
of
browser
technologies
as
an
infor-
mation
and
knowledge
transfer
medium
are
clearly
a
major
long-
term
trend.
However,
intra
nets
are
a
trend
still
in
the
early
stages,
and
most
of
the
people
who
will
use
them
in
the
future
still
either
don't
know
about
them,
or
don't
know
how
simple
and
useful
it is for
the
aver-
~ge
person
to create their
own
Web
pages
for
sharing
and
disseminat-
ing
information
to others.
Applications
to solve
business
issues
are
just
beginning
to surface,
and
success
stories
are
just
begin-
ning
to
come
to light. Expect
many
more
stories
over
the
next
year
or
two.
It
doesn't
take
much
imagina-
tion
to
see
that
combining
the
power
of
a low-cost,
ultra-portable
network-centric
palmtop
PC
with
the
broadcast
and
storage
power
of
an
intranet
opens
the
door
to appli-
cations
that
could
never
have
been
dreamed
possible before.
The
computing
and
template
power
of
1-2-3 to create
and
update
Web
pages
enhances
the
number
of
things
that
can
be
done
by
the
average
person
with
a little
bit
of
spreadsheet
and
computer
knowl-
edge
.
I'd
like
to
know
your
views
about
combining
intranets
with
palmtops
and
1-2-3.
Send
me
an
e-
mail
letting
me
know
if
you
dis-
agree
with
me
or
if
you
also see
the
value
of
this combination.
Shareware
Freeware
mentioned
in
this
article
HV
. Utility: a
Hypertext
viewer
for
the
World
Wide
Web's
HTML
format.
Available
on
last
month's
ON
DISK
and
HPHand,
Library
11
on
CompuServe.