Reports to XLS files

Hi All,
Needed some urgent informarion:
1. Can we export reports from Oracle Reports 10g to XLS files? If yes, how is this done? Any documentation available?
2. Can reports from developer suite be pushed to a dot matrix printer? If yes, how is this done?
Needed this information on high priority. Any suggestions would be helpful.
Thanks

Hello,
If you are using Reports 10gR2, you can use DESFORMAT=SPREADSHEET
http://www.oracle.com/webapps/online-help/reports/10.1.2/topics/htmlhelp_rwbuild_hs/rwwhthow/whatare/output/output_a_simpleexcel.htm
Oracle Reports 10g Release 2 (10.1.2) introduces a spreadsheet output format, which enables you to generate output with rich formatting from paper layout reports to Microsoft Excel-compatible HTML format that can be directly opened with Microsoft Excel 2000 or higher.
If you are using an "older" version, you have to generate a CSV file (comma separated values) with DESFORMAT=DELIMITED or DESFORMAT=DELIMITEDATA
For your question 2 , if you are on Windows, Reports will use the Windows Printer Driver to send the output to the printer. So it will work even for a Dot Matrix Printer
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