I'm not sure if this will work on CF8, but here's a UDF I optimized to generate better CSV so that dates, strings, non-numeric-string and other values are preserved when converting to Excel. Use this w/Total CSV Converter... or just return the CSV file and it will open nicely in current versions of Excel.

https://gist.github.com/JamoCA/b2d0467dd914909f00bf

WolfShade

Brainiac

I don't know of a solid way to do that in CF8. If you were on at least CF9, there is CFSPREADSHEET (for tag-based code) or SPREADSHEETNEW() (for CFSCRIPT code.) I prefer the latter, as it gives much more granular control.

HTH,

^_^

Carl Von Stetten

Brainiac

You might also look at Apache POI and Ben Nadel's CFC wrapper: GitHub - bennadel/POIUtility.cfc: A ColdFusion component (and set of custom tags) for reading and writing XLS (Excel) do…

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atlcfAuthor

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Thanks

I am actually looking at that now.

I’ve downloaded the code and changed the ext to .xslx and it creates a file but it won’t open.

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