Nested tables in RTF templates

Hi,
I've developed several templates including nested tables(to display parent/child transactions together in a single column group, displaying all the detail transactions but the parent only once), in PDF output this looks fine. However the users want all their output in Excel, this same layout is not picked up by Excel(all column headers for the data in the nested table move to the right, while all the data in the nested table is grouped under a 'merged cell' column header). Output of BI Publisher reports in Excel is generally terrible with a template designed for publishing in PDF, usually I can solve this with a lot of tweaking but haven't found a solution for this issue yet. Has anyone else run into this formatting issue and may have a tip to solve this?
Regards,
Arthur

Hi,
You need to declare a TYPE object as and then use it in the table structure.
CREATE TYPE type_emp IS TABLE OF VARCHAR2(15);
CREATE TABLE Biscuits Company SA
(company_name COMPANY NOT NULL,
Company_Owner VARCHAR2(20) NOT NULL)
NESTED TABLE staff_tab STORE AS type_emp;
Please see the link for more info.
http://www.developer.com/db/article.php/10920_3379271_3
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