(1) I am using Excel::Writer::XLSX, one of the issues is that the function write_url() does not work well when there is any '&' on the URL. this looks OK if I change '&' to '&', I am not sure if this is a correct solution, the resulting XLSX file yields some waring information after being opened.

(2) need to send out daily report (i.e. report-yyyymmdd.xlsx) in an email attachment by using MIME::Lite. I tried setting Type as 'AUTO', 'application/vnd.ms-excel', 'application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet'. none of these are working and the attached file can not be opened properly. The file is OK if I scp to my local server and open it directly (not in email attachment).

I was using Spreadsheet::WriteExcel and Excel 97-2003, no above issues at all. but I do need some new functionality in Excel 2010. Any suggestions

many thanks in advance

lihao

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