The best option I've found is to write to a file that is then sent to the browser for download. Are there others? Yes but that's the one I've had the best experience with. It seems to work reliably regardless of browser or version of Office or any thing else. HTH! On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 13:31 -0500, Ron Piggott wrote: > What is the preferred method used to export mySQL to Excel within the context of PHP? I have looked on Google and found a wide variety of options. Ron > Ron Piggott > > > > www.TheVerseOfTheDay.info -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php