Excel97 is very limited with web queries in the features it can perform.
There is a big development gap between 97 and 2000, not only with Excel, but
with web sites also.

Mike F
"Dave Unger" <dave.unger@sasktel.net> wrote in message
news:1150090547.773218.147700@h76g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hello
>
> My friend set up a web query in Excel 2000, and it runs fine on his
> machine, and downloads a specific table. When I try to run the same
> query on my machine (Excel 97, Win 98), it downloads the whole web
> page, not just the table. In fact, any web query I try to set up seems
> to download the whole page.
>
> I'm new to the Web Query aspect of Excel, and am obviously doing
> something wrong, but none of the research I've done on this seems to
> help.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> regards
>
> DaveU
>