Export report to MS Excel

Question

I would like to export or spool the report to MS Excel directly. What is the effective way in doing so?

Answer 1

Hi,
Thanks for your solution to convert to excel. But its not working for me.
I did the said things in the following fashion.
1. In Before Trigger
function BeforeReport return boolean is
out_file Text_IO.File_Type;
begin
out_file := Text_IO.FOpen('c:\s2.csv', 'w');
Text_io.fclose(Out_file);
return (TRUE);
end;
2. In After Trigger
function AfterReport return boolean is
out_file Text_IO.File_Type;
begin
out_file := Text_IO.FOpen('c:\s2.csv', 'r');
If Text_Io.Is_Open(Out_file) Then
     Text_Io.FClose(Out_File);
End if;
return (TRUE);
end;
3. made one formula column and applied in the bottom of other items placed
function CF_1Formula return Number is
OutP Text_io.file_type;
begin
OutP:=TEXT_IO.FOPEN('c:\s2.csv','W');
Text_IO.Put_line(OutP, :admin_code );
Text_IO.FClose(OutP);
return(null);
end;
Please help me...