Preserving control break formatting in report downloads with BI Publisher

Hello,
I am using APEX 4.0.2 and would like to know if anyone has a step by step process or tutorial for preserving control break formatting in an interactive report that has been downloaded to any or all of the available file formats. I am using BI Publisher, to which I am very new, to do the report printing of the Reports Region to a PDF, RTF, XLS, CSV or HTML file. Currently, when we download the report to any of the file formats, the formatting is stripped out and only standard row/columns are being saved.
BTW, I have changed my username to something more friendly but it has not yet taken effect.
Thanks,
Marcy

Hi Venkat,
Thanks for your quick respond.
1.) Auto Run is enabled. And the report runs automatically as well. But then it ignores the dashboard prompt (as a regular report would do as well). But when I choose some values in the prompt and then press go. Then it says I have to press on view as well.
2.) no that is not the case. My report is so big that it always need a scroll bar ;) also adjusting the size settings in the dashboard doesn't help. The only occurs when viewing in HTML, when previewing in excel or RTF it all just work fine.
3.) true, but ow well this is the least importetant one ;) so if this doesn't work, than it doesn't work ;)
4.) Ok, I will have a look on that.
5.) I did enabled HTML and EXCEL outputs in my BIP report. But when the first point is working, then I don't want to see the control bar anymore and I want to have the output on the dashboard in HTML and then I want to build a button, or a link or something that exports the request to excel. Is that possible?

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