When saving as Excel using Excel button from TableTools CSV option is offered.

muhax

When wanting to save as Excel using Excel button from TableTools I am offered only CSV format.
If I manually change and save it as xls and than try to open it with Excel it complains about wrong format.
http://www.datatables.net/release-datatables/extras/TableTools/theme.html
On all examples with TableTools, try saving as Excel and you will be given option to save as CSV not XLS.
Is this a bug?

allan

Not a bug, a known, and currently accepted, limitation. See: http://datatables.net/forums/discussion/4043/export-to-excel-wrong-extention-.csv./p1 .

Proper XLS format (or more likely XLSX) is a future enhancement for TableTools. Patches very welcome :-)

Allan

kbeaty

Has anyone else seen this issue: http://datatables.net/forums/discussion/14527/tabletools-file-extensions-are-not-inserted-when-using-chrome#Item_1

allan

I've posted a reply in your other thread.