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Instructions for downloading the Faed Paintings database and opening it in Excel.
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http://www.faed.net/paintings2.htm
in the address field click
on the database itself, click on File on the Internet Explorer menu,
and then click on Save as then save the database.html file where you can find it
later on your hard drive. Open it in Excel after selecting All file types on the open file
requester and save an .xls file. When you open it in Excel some of the cells may be
merged, to unmerge them, go to Format, Cells, Alignment and
click on the Merge cells box until it is clear. You can then sort
it, or do anything else that an Excel spreadsheet can do. If you need help using Excel,
please use the help provided with Excel, don’t e-mail me, I’m not an Excel
expert!
Netscape
Communicator (tested with version 4.6)
Go to the
database page, click on the database itself, click on File on the Netscape
menu, and then click on Save Frame as then save the database.html file where
you can find it later on your hard drive. Open it in Excel after selecting All file types
on the open file requester and save an .xls file. You can then sort it, or do anything
else that an Excel spreadsheet can do. If you need help using Excel, please use the help
provided with Excel, don’t e-mail me, I’m not an Excel expert!
Searching.
When looking for a painting by name, try just putting in a key word and not the full title, as some paintings seem to have been given slightly different names. or in some cases renamed completely. In this case searching by description may help, also sorting the database in Excel by artist name or by date will narrow your search. Remember if you cannot find the painting in the database there are three strong possibilities: 1. The database is not complete. 2. It's a fake. 3. It's an unknown work, in which case I would like details on it so it can be added to the database, this can be done without any reference to it's location or owner.