hello,
thank you vince for your response. i checked the article you referred me
to. it was helpful. i also found a very simple SOLUTION to displaying individual
charts on a webpage. i decided to post the code so that it may help those
who are having the same problem.

this is what you do:
open a connection to your excel workbook from your webpage.
set the chart spreadsheet you wish to see to "visible".
set all other spreadsheets to hide.
set your workbook as read-only if you don't want users to change your data/charts.

here is a sample code:

<html><head>

<script language=vbscript>

Dim objExcel

Sub chartsheet_onclick()
call OpenWorkbook("c:\test\testfile.xls")
End Sub

Sub OpenWorkbook(strLocation)

Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
objExcel.Visible = true
objExcel.Workbooks.Open strLocation
objExcel.UserControl = true
objExcel.Sheets("chart").Visible = True
objExcel.Sheets("sheet1").Visible = False
objExcel.Sheets("sheet2").Visible = False
objExcel.Sheets("sheet3").Visible = False

End Sub

</script>

<title></title></head><body><br>

this is a test page for displaying an excel chart...
<br><br>

<input type=button name=chartsheet value="display excel chart">

</body></html>

fareeda

"Vince" <vince@vas3.com> wrote:
>
>Link to an answer to this question, may help.
>
>http://news.devx.com/cgi-bin/dnewswe...tem=9154&utag=
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>"fareeda" <servers52@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>hello,
>>i have excel spreadsheets that contain charts and graphs. i want to display
>>those charts on a webpage WITHOUT having to convert the charts into HTML
>>files. what is the best and easy way to do this? i tried to create a
link
>>to the charts using the <a href = ...> html method. it linked the workbook
>>but not the spreadsheet. i want to link ONLY the spreadsheets. something
>>like this: <a href='[c:\windows\desktop\test.xls]chart'> this didn't work.
>> any idea??? can javascript/vbscript coding do the job? what's a good
>way
>>to do this?
>>
>>thank you,
>>fareeda
>