I have had similar issues with the excel options for ColdFusion Reports. In the end, I wrote code to using CFFILE to create a csv file with a .xls extension instead.
Dave
> Hello, I've recently been messing around with ColdFusion Report
> Builder because of it's ability to easily output the report in
> different formats. To my dismay, reports that look good in PDF & HTML
> get formatted very poorly in excel. Data gets pushed into
> non-sequential cells and cell formatting is unwieldy. In short, it is
> not a usable document.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has had any experience, frustration, etc,
> trying to get the Report Builder to output useful excel documents?
> Can anyone point me in the right direction to format the reports so
> they are excel friendly?
>
> Thanks,
> Asaf
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