Importing Excel Data to a Table

Created Excel document

The first thing that I did was to create a fictitious spread sheet using Excel. I wanted to see how well this data would be imported. Also, the video stated that is sometimes easier to create the data in a spreadsheet than in Dreamweaver. Also, a pie chart was generated using Excel as an experiment on the import function. I eventually used that pie chart as a background image for the table.

Imported Tabular Data from Excel

The importing process was fairly straight forward as described in my discussion of 5 Dreamweaver techniques. I simply followed the import wizard and Dreamweaver generated the table for me. One thing to note is that the table that Dreamweaver creates from this process is lacking many of the tags that I needed to format my table properly. Overall, I would say that if you have a lot of data to bring into a table, it is worth using the import function. If you have a small amount of data, it is probably easier to create the table in Dreamweaver first then populate the data by hand.