Using Excel to make the HTML for the "body" of a table

This article is about how Excel's text functions can be used to make the HTML statements to put inside the body section of a table.   It's written with Blogger users in mind, but applies to anyone who needs to create a large HTML table.   Two Excel example files are provided, one using CSS and one not, which have some formatting included.

Comparing Two Text Files - using Excel

This article is about comparing two text files, making a list of the differences between them and categorising each difference according to whether you care about it or not.   An Excel file tool (available for download) is used, because this helps with making the final list.

The tool was made to support comparing two Blogger templates,as part of Seven Simple Steps to a Snazzy New-look Blog.  But it can be used for many different types of file-comparisons where you need to think about the between the files, keep track of individual differences, and plan actions based on them.