Yes, OWC is ideal for this across the web and does not require any plug-in on the client browser side. It basically has taken Excel and made it into a multi-threaded web application with a few limitations. Rick has an article and free class for it in his white papers. The free download from Microsoft is here:
http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2002/owc10.aspx
and here's a very simple example:
http://www.activevfp.com/avfpdemo2/default.aspx?action=owcgraph
However, if you wanted to do more with it, you could use some ActiveX plugins. For example, for drill-down capability...

>David,
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>>yeah the primary objective is to have this information available via browser.
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>I think Rick Strahl wrote a white paper a few years back on using MS Office Web Components across the internet. If I remember correctly (don't get too excited, I'm not 100% sure if my memory is accurate here), there's a technique that would allow you to create those report card graphs via Excel across the internet. Or perhaps you could automate Excel, produce the equivalent graphs, copy to an image file, and serve up the image files vs. spreadsheets?
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>Perhaps someone else reading this thread will recognize what I'm talking about.
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>Malcolm