Hi folks At the moment we make CSV files in UNIX scripts. Here an example. SELECT serial || ';' || upd_time || ';' || MESSAGE || ';' || entity_table || ';' || action || ';' || status || ';' || act_msg || ';' || rss_name || ';' || rss_type || ';' || ADMIN FROM trans WHERE ess_user = '00000001' AND upd_time > to_date('25/05/2010','DD/MM/YYYY') ORDER BY serial DESC; Is it possible to make a native Excel sheet from UNIX? We need basic formatting of the resulting sheet. For example the field act_msg is a VARCHAR2 with 4000 Byte. In CSV this is a mess... cheers Sven -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l