See the net.sf.jasperreports.print.keep.full.text property which was introduced in JR 2.0.3. The flag affects data-oriented exporters such as XLS and CSV. This worked! Thank you very much Lucian. Also, I searched further the forum and found a related issue. But could I pass this property through java code; Have searched in JRExporterParameter and in some subclasses, e.g. JRXlsExporterParameter, but nothing found. Thanks again.