title: Exporting HTML to Excel Without Losing Formatting
body: <p>I have a asp.net page that generates a report.  For better or for worse, the entire thing is generated using nested tables.  I am able to export the page to excel, however I lose all my formatting (can't set column widths, etc).   Is there a way to handle this?  I'm open to adding any goofy MS Office -specific tags that are required to the html side of it.</p>
  
  <p>If this isn't feasible and if anyone has any other ideas, the requirement is that users need a report that:</p>
  
  <p>a) They can manually touch up with some personalization / area-specific data</p>
  
  <p>b) Needs to be hide/show columns based on user's location</p>
  
  <p>c) Needs to run from the web site.</p>
  
  <p>Any help or recommendations for an alternate approach would be greatly appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks
  Joe</p>