Woah, I'm feeling woosy. I had to open Excel just to see if there *was* a "Save as web page" option. To my dismay, there is.

Exporting html out of an MS Office app is typically an exercise in bloat. I recently dealt with a page that exported out of Word with over 5000 lines of code...only about 400 of which were truly meaningful.

If your time is more important than efficient code (welcome to the business world!), then you always have the option to simply make the required modifications in Excel and publish them with the "Save as Web Page" option (shudder). Not a pretty site from a coder's point of view, but workable if you just don't have time to get html under your fingernails. (Yeah, I've done it, and no, I'm not proud of it.)

In my experience it's largely the embedded style sheet that accounts for a lot of the excess in an Office-created html file, but there're also a lot of unneccesary attributes thrown into the html tags themselves.

If you want to *really* gain control over the pages, my advice would be to copy and paste the guts of the page (which often amounts to a single, large table) into a fairly simple html/text editor. I'm very fond of Homesite. But if you'd like to go WYSIWYG (and I can understand why, especially if web work really isn't your primary job), Dreamweaver isn't a bad choice. There's some reasonable freeware html editors out there--Arachnophilia, HomePage 2000, Crimson Editor. Anyway, the point is you want to grab the content and leave the large stylesheet behind. Remember, when you cut stuff out of the middle of a page, you'll need to add back in certain tags at the top and bottom to make it a legal html document.

If a browser's default font is ok for your purposes, use search-n-replace to start deleting the undoubtedly numerous style attributes. You *could* leave them...after omitting the style sheet, the attributes don't really do anything, but they will pump up the filesize, and hence the download times, of your pages.

If the default font won't work, then welcome to the wonderful world of style sheets. You'll have to learn the basics and roll your own styles. The fundamentals are pretty easy, and it's something you'd use often if you're going to do web work on a regular basis.

I hope that's clear enough to be usable. If I had to offer only one other tidbit, I'd just remind you to look at your page often in all the target browsers while you're working on the code...at first, you might want to refresh the browsers and have a peek every time you make a change to the code.