Oracle Reports 9I generate output in excel

Report Builder 9.0.4.0.33
I tried generating output to Excel using 10GR2 Report builder using SPREADSHEET for destype on the web and it works.
The requirement is for this one customer who is on 9I and they are asking for excel output functiuonality on thier existing reports.
Does oracle has a patch or any other way to generate the exisitng reports on 91 where we can give them a selection like SPREADSHEET in the parameter screen and it would generate the report in excel.
Thanks
I tried by appending below to the url in the before report trigger.
&mimetype=application/vnd.ms-excel
which works but, we give other selections to the user too where they can change the desformat to PDF or HTMLCSS...and they all try to open the report output in excel.
Edited by: Forms_Reports_Beginner on Oct 6, 2009 3:17 PM

Thank you Lalitk and Dennis,
My team mate wrote a javascript function on before report trigger that checks the paramter selection for desformat and append the mimetype accordingly.Hence, able to achieve the functionality.
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