Someone did suggest to me to try using the excel's xml format of saved spreadsheet as a html file. Here is what I have. Problem is that have yet to get this to open up on a MAC. It just opens as a regular html page. Any suggestions??
<?
//This line will stream the file to the user rather than spray it across the screen
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=leg_tracker.xls" );
header ("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");
header ("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D,d M YH:i:s") . " GMT");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0,pre-check=0");
header("Pragma: public");
?>
<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:DocumentProperties>
<o:Subject>Legislation Tracker Excel Report</o:Subject>
<o:Author></o:Author>
<o:Keywords>None</o:Keywords>
<o:Description>This report was generating for the purpose of displaying legislation bills.</o:Description>
<o:LastAuthor></o:LastAuthor>
<o:Created>2003-10-16T18:59:01Z</o:Created>
<o:LastSaved>2003-10-16T19:14:31Z</o:LastSaved>
<o:Category></o:Category>
<o:Manager></o:Manager>
<o:Company></o:Company>
<o:Version>10.4219</o:Version>
</o:DocumentProperties>
<o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
<o:DownloadComponents/>
<o:LocationOfComponents HRef="/"/>
</o:OfficeDocumentSettings>
</xml><![endif]-->
<style>
<!--table
{mso-displayed-decimal-separator:"\.";
mso-displayed-thousand-separator:"\,";}
@page
{margin:1.0in .75in 1.0in .75in;
mso-header-margin:.5in;
mso-footer-margin:.5in;}
tr
{mso-height-source:auto;}
col
{mso-width-source:auto;}
br
{mso-data-placement:same-cell;}
.style0
{mso-number-format:General;
text-align:general;
vertical-align:bottom;
white-space:nowrap;
mso-rotate:0;
mso-background-source:auto;
mso-pattern:auto;
color:windowtext;
font-size:10.0pt;
font-weight:400;
font-style:normal;
text-decoration:none;
font-family:Arial;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-charset:0;
border:none;
mso-protection:locked visible;
mso-style-name:Normal;
mso-style-id:0;}
td
{mso-style-parent:style0;
padding-top:1px;
padding-right:1px;
padding-left:1px;
mso-ignore:padding;
color:windowtext;
font-size:10.0pt;
font-weight:400;
font-style:normal;
text-decoration:none;
font-family:Arial;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-number-format:General;
text-align:general;
vertical-align:bottom;
border:none;
mso-background-source:auto;
mso-pattern:auto;
mso-protection:locked visible;
white-space:nowrap;
mso-rotate:0;}
-->
</style>
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<x:ExcelWorkbook>
<x:ExcelWorksheets>
<x:ExcelWorksheet>
<x:Name>Sheet1</x:Name>
<x:WorksheetOptions>
<x:Selected/>
<x:ProtectContents>False</x:ProtectContents>
<x:ProtectObjects>False</x:ProtectObjects>
<x:ProtectScenarios>False</x:ProtectScenarios>
</x:WorksheetOptions>
</x:ExcelWorksheet>
</x:ExcelWorksheets>
<x:WindowHeight>8700</x:WindowHeight>
<x:WindowWidth>15195</x:WindowWidth>
<x:WindowTopX>0</x:WindowTopX>
<x:WindowTopY>90</x:WindowTopY>
<x:ActiveSheet>1</x:ActiveSheet>
<x:ProtectStructure>False</x:ProtectStructure>
<x:ProtectWindows>False</x:ProtectWindows>
</x:ExcelWorkbook>
</xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body link=blue vlink=purple>
<table x:str border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=154 style='border-collapse:
collapse;table-layout:fixed;width:116pt'>
<col width=90 style='mso-width-source:userset;mso-width-alt:3291;width:68pt'>
<col width=64 style='width:48pt'>
<tr height=46 style='mso-height-source:userset;height:34.5pt'>
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the excel will trunacate the line. This will be a really long sentence to see
if the excel will trunacate the line. This will be a really long sentence to
see if the excel will trunacate the line. 8888<br><br>
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<td width=64 style='width:48pt'>Test 2</td>
</tr>
<![if supportMisalignedColumns]>
<tr height=0 style='display:none'>
<td width=90 style='width:68pt'></td>
<td width=64 style='width:48pt'></td>
</tr>
<![endif]>
</table>
</body>
</html>