You can export and deploy an Interactive Reporting section on an intranet or internet, and work back and forth between the HTML file and Microsoft Office 2000 Excel. This is achieved by using the Microsoft Office 2000 HTML (*.html) or Microsoft Office Web Archive (*.mhtml) file formats. These file formats preserve and recognize formatting attributes, formulas, and Visual Basic for Applications macros (VBA) created in the original section.
This feature uses Microsoft Office XML (extended markup language) tags in addition to the HTML. When the exported section is opened in Microsoft Office (specifically Excel), the formatting and formula from the original section are preserved and recognized. You can modify the file again and save it as an HTML file without the loss of any HMTL code. If you modify the file and save it in Office Excel file format, the HTML tags are not retained.
A section exported to a Microsoft Office 2000 HTML (.html) file format has the main web page saved in one folder and all the graphics and other related information (such as VBA macros) in another.
Microsoft Office 2000 Web Archive (.mhtml or .mhtml) refers to MS HTML, which is a standard for including objects in the same file as the HTML code (for example .gif or.jpeg files). Objects are encoded using the MIME HTML Internet standard. You might use this file format if you plan to email the HTML as a single file.