Creating formatted excel file from PHP

hi

I know that with the right header and table data you can create a excel
file with data in it. I would like to know how do you set background
colors and borders, so can have a nicely formatted looking excel ***.
I also need this file created on the server. Ive looked at biffwriter
and excelwriter and they only seem to create the excel file in the
browser. For now I just want to know if through html can you make excel
recognize bgcolor attribute of <td> tag? It doesnt seem to work. I can
change font color using <font color=''> and can bold with <b>, but
thats about it. Must be more complete way of formatting cells through
html.

Andy

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