How do you use Excel server-side?

Question

A client wants to \"Web-enable\" a spreadsheet calculation -- the user to specify the values of certain cells, then show them the resulting values in other cells.

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Answer 1

The simplest way to do this might be to:

Upload the Excel workbook to Google Docs -- this is very clean, in my experience

Use the Google Spreadsheets Data API to update the data and return the numbers.

Here's a link to get you started on this, if you want to go that direction:

http://code.google.com/apis/spreadsheets/overview.html