You could also just generate a CSV file. That works fine in lots of versions of Excel. :)

And as an extra bonus, the users are not locked in to Excel, but could also use other spreadsheet applications. On the other hand, most of them can read Excel files, more or less.

One quite obvious difference between XLS(X) and CSV is that you can not add any formatting to CSV. You simply can not make one row bold or a column green, or a cell contain a big fat warning. For that, you need one of the Excel formats, or generate HTML and perhaps a style sheet. Of course, importing HTML into Excel is a completely different problem.

Alexander

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In reply to Re^2: old style xls module by afoken
in thread old style xls module by expo1967

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