Re: still not able to add page numbers without putting number to first page
""Have you seen the bloated insane HTML MSOffice generates?""
No, but why would I need to? Office in general only generates HTML when it's needed. And I can't see a need to ever see any native HTML.
Current Office file formats are in general XML based and highly compressed. Not the most efficient way of storing data, but it is practical for cross platform and cross software portability and backwards compatibility.
With the exception of Excel that has the "XLB" binary format as an option that significantly reduces file sizes and load / save times... See blog.datasafexl.com/excel-articles/advantages-of-xlsb-excel-binary-format/