title: force width in html excel file to be a certain width when opened in excel
body: <p>I am having trouble setting the width in an html excel file and then opening it in excel.</p>
  
  <p>The width works perfectly in html when viewed with the major browsers, but when loaded into excel I see a big disconnect.</p>
  
  <p>I spoke with other designers and they said to use the web preview technique in excel, but that is not working either.  Another person suggested using the col tag and setting the attribute width, style width, and the style mso alternate width.  Also it was suggested to use span, and match table width to the sum of td width which also is not working in excel, but they all seem to work great in all the browsers.</p>
  
  <p>There are multiple tables, and each table has been customized for width and height.</p>
  
  <p>Also I have tried to put everything under one table and set only the first row for widths which is also not working.  Should I just switch to pdf.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,
  Marc</p>