Exporting to Excel format

Quite often, when a user exports to an Excel spreadsheet and selects "Open"
instead of "Save" for the file download dialog the file does not open.
Instead, they get an error saying "xxxxx.xls could not be found. Check the
spelling of the file name, and verify that the location is correct". This
seems to happen more often than not.
Is there anything which can be done about this? The problem doesn't occur if
they save the file instead of opening it, but they should not have to
perform extra steps for what should be a simple operation.
PeterThis is a bug. You have identified the workaround: Save the file to the
local machine and then open it. At this time I cannot give you any specific
guidance when a fix might be available.
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Bruce Johnson [MSFT]
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
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"Peter Kenyon" <p.kenyon.no.spam@.paradise.net.nz> wrote in message
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> Quite often, when a user exports to an Excel spreadsheet and selects
"Open"
> instead of "Save" for the file download dialog the file does not open.
> Instead, they get an error saying "xxxxx.xls could not be found. Check the
> spelling of the file name, and verify that the location is correct". This
> seems to happen more often than not.
> Is there anything which can be done about this? The problem doesn't occur
if
> they save the file instead of opening it, but they should not have to
> perform extra steps for what should be a simple operation.
> Peter
>