Bug #67092 Excel Spreadsheet export now shows .xml
Submitted: 4 Oct 2012 23:50 Modified: 4 Nov 2012 1:45
Reporter: John Curtusan Email Updates:
Status: Not a Bug Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Workbench: SQL Editor Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.2.44 OS:Windows (Microsoft Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (build 7601), 64-bit)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: WBBugReporter

[4 Oct 2012 23:50] John Curtusan
Description:
Excel Spreadsheet export now shows xml? what happened to xls? 

----- Developer Notes -----

MySQL Workbench CE for Windows version 5.2.44  revision 9933
Configuration Directory: C:\Users\jcurtusan\AppData\Roaming\MySQL\Workbench
Data Directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\MySQL Workbench 5.2 CE
Cairo Version: 1.8.8
OS: Microsoft Windows 7  Service Pack 1 (build 7601), 64-bit
CPU: 4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU         650  @ 3.20GHz, 3.9 GiB RAM
Active video adapter (0): NVIDIA GeForce 310 
Installed video RAM: 512 MB
Current video mode: 1600 x 900 x 4294967296 colors
Used bit depth: 32
Driver version: 8.17.12.9573
Installed display drivers: nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Active video adapter (1): LogMeIn Mirror Driver
Installed video RAM: 0 MB
Current video mode: 1280 x 1024 x 4294967296 colors
Used bit depth: 32
Driver version: 7.1.542.0
Installed display drivers: NULL
Current user language: English (United States)

How to repeat:
choose export and choose Excel.
[5 Oct 2012 0:50] MySQL Verification Team
Thank you for the bug report.
[4 Nov 2012 1:45] Alfredo Kojima
The format exported by Workbench is the XML excel format, not the binary xls format.
[20 Sep 2013 11:54] MySQL Verification Team
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=70382 marked as duplicate of this one.
[19 Mar 2018 21:35] MySQL Verification Team
https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=90129 marked as duplicate of this one.
[10 Jul 2018 7:02] Chiranjeevi Battula
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=91576 marked as duplicate of this one.