For this project I took an Apex-plugin I have written, (IR) Report to Excel (xlsx), and turned it into a PL/SQL package. With this package it’s very easy to create an Excel 2007 file with only a few lines of PL/SQL code.

begin as_xlsx.query2sheet( 'select * from dual' ); as_xlsx.save( 'MY_DIR', 'my.xlsx' ); end;

The main purpose for this package is getting data from the database into an Excel file, so I deliberate did not include some Excel functionality, such as formulas, into the package. Excel itself is a far better tool for such things.

Anton

The source code for the package: as_xlsx P.S. I have added the possibility to add Comments and MergedCells to the Excel-file P.S.2 And bold/italic fonts P.S.3 Fixed issue with timezones with a regionname P.S.4 Fixed issue with XML-escaping from text P.S.5 Fixed NLS-issue with column width P.S.6 Added p_rgb to get_font P.S.7 Fixed bug in add_string P.S.8 Fixed set_autofilter (only one autofilter per sheet, added _xlnm._FilterDatabase) Added list_validation = drop-down