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It's so ad hoc but it works (not to mention excel issuing a warning on opening) and is so simple, it deserves to have a place as a solution. Though only for showing that you can export an excel file :))
– Luka Ramishvili
Commented Jan 4, 2012 at 7:23
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This solution worked fine for me, just note you cannot use .xlsx extension
– Jill
Commented Mar 30, 2016 at 18:24
Some people at my organization can't open excel files made this way in Office 2010 and above. Don't know what the problem is, but I had to roll my own OpenXML implementation. (see Sogger's answer)
– Kristen Hammack
Commented Dec 8, 2016 at 22:55
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An even more lightweight version is to just create a csv file, which Windows associates with Excel.
– John Coleman
Commented May 6, 2021 at 21:35
Watch out for security warnings appearing to your user if you do this: "Warning, the content of the file doesn't match the extension". Particularly alarming when you're doing a download from your bank. I wouldn't rcommend pursuing the approach mentioned in this answer
– Caius Jard
Commented May 3, 2022 at 10:13

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