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  1. From the OfficeWriter Designer toolbar select Save > Save to Disk.
    # Navigate to a local folder where you will store the template report file. This will be where you store your work file in case you want to edit it later, not a location on the Reporting Services server.
    # Save the template as an RDL file.
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titleSaving to specific Excel file formats

If you want to render the report in a specific format (XLS, XLSX, XLSM), you will need to use the Save to Disk option to set the file format for the Excel report in the RDL. However, you will only need to do this once to set the file format, unless you decide to change the file format later.

The file format options for Save to Disk are:

  • Office 2003 exports to XLS
  • Office 2007 exports to XLSX
  • Office 2007 with macros exports to XLSM

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