Download-to-excel vs. web print to excel

There is an old how-to guide about downloading web report to Excel and it worked fine. Now we are implementing the web print to Excel function. However, two concerns:
1) what's the advantage of web print to excel over download to excel function?
2) in web print to excel, the header is fine but the cells of rows are all aligned in first column vertically! I only imported the classes and used the HELP class but did not configure the XML tags.

Using the old How to guide (2.0B) you will only download the data on the screen, if you had multiple pages it will not download any of those extra pages.
The new Excel print is based on MS Office HTML, here you have more options for setting print options by default in the template, like page orientation, repeating column headers, paper size (legal, A4 etc..), report header etc... you can also have a print specific template using the device types.
One more advantage over the 3.0B Excel download is if you use Table APIs for manipulating data it will be taken into account with the new soltuion. This also supports multiple data providers.
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Hi,
Here is the How to Web Printing with Excel, download from the Link
This will expire in 7 days from the posting Date.<a href="http://download.yousendit.com/143673776AFD7E8F">How to Web Printing with Excel</a>
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