Here's a description of how MS Word and MS Excel were actually used to create 4,600 parameterized web pages, complete with samples of the Excel and Word documents used:
http://www.horniman.info/DOCUMNTS/HOWTO.HTM
Scroll down to section 6, "Webpages" for explanation of this topic.
The generated website is also live online at
so the generated HTML can be easily inspected.