If your computer includes the Microsoft Office suite of applications (Word, Excel, Access, and such), you also own a full-fledged HTML design environment.

Buried away in some file folder deep in your hard drive sits the Microsoft Script Editor. To find it, use the Windows Search function. Look for a file named either MSE7.EXE (if you use Office XP/2003) or MSE.EXE (for older Office versions). The program comes as an optional component in the older copies of Office, but Office XP 2003 seems to install it automatically.

If your computer contains Office but doesn't contain the script editor, fire up the Office installation program (on your installation disc) and look in the Office Tools section for an entry called HTML Source Editing. Make sure that it and all entries beneath it (like one called Web scripting in the Office 2000 installation program) are set to Run from Hard Drive. With those settings in place, tell the installation program to do its thing. When it finishes, you'll find your copy of the Microsoft Script Editor awaiting you (after looking for it, of course).