Strange Disco 10 excel export issue

Hi all,
I have a report which returns 24141 rows.
I can export to Excel ok in Discoverer 10 Desktop.
However, a strange thing happens when trying to export in Plus / Viewer. The export seems to go ok and an excel file is created in the location, eg my desktop.
But then when I try and open the file from Excel I get an error message as below.
"somefilename.xls cannot be accessed. The file may be read-only, or you may be trying to access a read-only location. Or, the server the document is stored on may not be responding."
Any ideas? It appears the file is getting corrupted in some way via the export process from plus/viewer and this affects several users.
rg

Well, can you go into Discoverer Plus, do a very simple report, export to Excel, and get that to work? Or do you have the same problem even with a very simple, basic report? Maybe this is a Microsoft office problem/bug? I am able to export to Excel from my Discoverer Plus and open up the spreadsheet files just fine. I am thinking this is something that you want to log a service request with Oracle support about. Something somewhere is not right, whether in the Oracle code or in Microsoft code.
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