Formating MSA Excel Reports created in MSY

Hello All,
we want to format a excel report, that was created in MSY.
for example we use the Business Query BSACTIVITY with 'from' and 'to' date parameters.
The result is then in the Excle sheet BSACTIVITY.
We have created some programming in the sub "Workbook_BeforeSave"
to copy the data from BSACTIVITY to a new sheet called Calender.
When we run the report creation a second time, the data is written to the same file again, but is not creating a new workbook.
Has anyone experience with the formating of those excelreport ?
We run CRM 40 SP 09.
Thank you for your help.
Best reagards
Frank

Hi,
I just want to push this topic.
For me it's the same problem. I want to format a Excel report which was created in MSY.
How can it be done to save the customized design of the excel sheet? Is it possible to save the design in MSY or is it necessary to create an excel makro?
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Christian

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