Download to excel issue.

Hi All,
When I download a report to excel, one of my percent field with one decimal place, is increased to two decimal places in excel.
does anyone of a work around or a fix to this issue?
Thanks

Checking the Oracle bug database there are the following bugs/enhancements logged that sounds relevant and some workarounds we can try:
Bug 865450 DOWNLOAD TO EXCEL ALWAYS OPENS AS HTML FILE
Bug 5592823 EXCEL DOWNLOAD TREATED AS HTML FILE BY MOZILLA FIREFOX 1.5
Enh 6906146 DOWNLOAD TO EXCEL 2000 OUTPUT SHOULD BE EXCEL FORMAT NOT HTML
Workarounds:
(1) If your server is Tomcat
(From bug log...)
The real issue is IE fails to to detect the file type correctly in some cases
in absence of proper MIME headers from the Tomcat servers especially on
Linux.
The fix is to
Add a mime-mapping in tomcat/conf/web.xml. Under the section
Default MIME Type Mappings
Restart tomcat and delete temporary internet files from IE
<mime-mapping>
<extension>xls</extension>
<mime-type>application/octet-stream</mime-type>
</mime-mapping>
(2) Switch browser to Firefox instead of IE. This sounds drastic but reading the bug logs it appears that Firefox will ask you what to use to open the file the first time it is used via Download to Excel - and at this point you can choose Excel and ask it to remember that decision.
Let me know if any of this useful. If not I'll drill further and see if I can dig up a better workaround.

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