Opening Excel(HTML) output in Excel

I have an issue whereby my Excel(HTML) output from XMLP is opening in a web browser rather than Excel. I've been through some previous threads on the same issue and many of them mention setting up a 'new viewer' or somesuch as the solution.
I'm not familiar with that terminology so I'm guessing it a piece of eBusiness Suite functionality. Unfortunately I'm using PeopleSoft and I can't see anything comparable.
What I have found however is that if you manually alter the header of the output file it works perfectly. i.e. the header looks like this:
<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
<title>Title</title>
If I change the 4th line to read:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/vnd.ms-excel"; charset=UTF-8"/>
It opens in Excel exactly as we'd want. The question is, how do I change this content type? Is there a server side configuration or is it something I can change via XSL?
kind regards
Duncan
http://www.PeopleSoftTipster.com

Hi Scott:
I am facing this issue using XML Publisher in 11.5.10.2. I have been able to open rtf reports in PDF format but when choosing Excel, the output is opening in an html web browser.
XML Publisher version is 5.6.3.
I am using Oracle XML Publisher Template Builder for Word; version 5.6 Build 45.
So, I have 2 questions at this point.
1. I can try Duncans' "fix" and see if that corrects the issue (not really a question).
2. Should I be upgrading to a version of BI Publisher template for word (10.13.2.1) ?
Thanks and regards,
Karen

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