I need to make a page for an active desktop that just simply displays a saved .xls file as is. It does not need to be interacted with, just displayed as the wall paper. So far I have had to do a screen shot every time I update it and then post it to desktops as an image. I am looking for a way to just have this automated every time the file is updated.

Can anyone assist me with this please? Much appreciated!



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I don't think there is a way you can do this automated. And if somebody made it, it'll cost you soem money.

After some searching on google I only found companies who sell that kind of software.

What you could do is something with csv file and php like this.

<?php
// starting excel 
$excel = new COM("excel.application") or die("Unable to instanciate excel"); 
print "Loaded excel, version {$excel->Version}\n"; 

//bring it to front 
#$excel->Visible = 1;//NOT
//dont want alerts ... run silent 
$excel->DisplayAlerts = 0; 

//open  document 
$excel->Workbooks->Open("C:\\mydir\\myfile.xls"); 
//XlFileFormat.xlcsv file format is 6
//saveas command (file,format ......)
$excel->Workbooks[1]->SaveAs("c:\\mydir\\myfile.csv",6); 

//closing excel 
$excel->Quit(); 

//free the object 
$excel->Release(); 
$excel = null; 
?> 

This converts your xls file to csv and maybe you can create your table out of that using the file options in php (http://nl3.php.net/manual/nl/function.file.php).

Hope this gives you some of a lead.

Good luck,

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