Hi,
That's bad news. I liked this pattern very much: Send the browser a HTML table
with content type application/vnd.ms-excel. This is much better than CSV.
If you find a solution, please post here.
Thomas
On 06.06.2011 17:10, Bobby Roberts wrote:
> hey -
>
> we are dumping results to excel as such:
>
>
> response = render_to_response('templatename_excel.html',
> {'trs':trs,})
> filename='myfilename.xls'
> response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename='
> + filename
> response['Content-Type'] = 'application/vnd.ms-excel;
> charset=utf-8'
> return response
>
>
> where trs is our record set. This works fine for office 2003 and open
> office but we get an invalid format error when trying to open the item
> in office 2010... we can click OK on the alert box and the file opens
> but it is still annoying. Do you have to do anything specifically for
> Excel 2010 to get that message to go away?
>
>
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