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You haven't said what you're trying to put into that Excel spreadsheet. If it's just rows of text, numbers, and formulas, then it's dead simple.

- change your response mime-type to application/excel

- supply a filename ending with .xls

- output comma-separated text.

done.

(it only gets difficult if you need to start embedding charts and specifying fonts)

(it only gets difficult if you need to start embedding charts and specifying fonts)

We do need to do some of this

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