Reports 10g and Excel output

Hi,
We are getting the excel file generated out of report RDF by specifying the DESFORMAT=spreadsheet. This works fine and excel file opens when we run the report with proper output. However, when we try to 'save as' the excel file opened, the default 'save as' type is coming as 'Web page (*.htm, *.html)'.
Is there any way using which we can have this default 'save as' type changed from 'Web page (*.htm, *.html)' to 'Excel (*.xls)'?
Thanks,
Jaldhi

Try adding charset to the content type
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<%@ page contentType="application/vnd.ms-excel;charset=ISO-8859-1" %>

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