About spreadsheets

To view and work with an interactive spreadsheet in the browser, you must have the Microsoft Office Web Components installed, a valid Microsoft Office 2003 license, and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 with Service Pack 2 (SP2) or later. Without a proper license, you might be able to view the components but not interact with them. See your network or computer administrator to see if your computer meets the necessary requirements to interact with a spreadsheet.

Changes you make in the spreadsheet are valid only for the current browser session. If you want to save changes you've made to data on a spreadsheet, you can export the data to a Microsoft Excel worksheet and save it there.

Some items in your spreadsheet may have been protected by the designer of the Web page. For instance, the designer may have locked certain cells, disabled sorting and filtering, disabled the toolbar from being displayed, or disabled display of the Commands and Options dialog box. If you have problems accessing these features, and your computer meets browser and license requirements, contact the designer of the Web page.

In addition to using the Spreadsheet component on a standard Web Page, if you have access to a server running Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, you can use the spreadsheet as the Spreadsheet Web Part on a Web Part page. Before a Windows SharePoint Services site can support Spreadsheet Web Parts, the site administrator must install the Office 2003 Web Parts and Components on that site. Office 2003 Web Parts and Components is available from Downloads on Microsoft Office Online. This installation needs to be performed only once to support any number of Spreadsheet Web Parts on that site.

The Spreadsheet Web Part supports all of the features of the spreadsheet component, and can also support additional features specific to the Web Part, such as the ability to create Web Part connections that allow the Web Part to send or receive data from the selected row to other Web Parts.

Note   The Spreadsheet Web Part has the same license requirements as the spreadsheet component, and requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 with Service Pack 2 (SP2) or later.

For more information about the Spreadsheet Web Part, see the following help topics in Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Help: "About the Spreadsheet Web Part," "Create a data-bound Spreadsheet Web Part," and "Create a connectable Spreadsheet Web Part." In the Table of Contents, click Excel and the Web and then click Use the Spreadsheet Web Part.