I am using JasperReport 3.0 and iReport 2.0. Reports are designed using iReport. And I have chosen the option of generating report in excel format. While designing, for a particular field if i set width for eg as 100, it is appearing in excel sheet by spanning 3 columns say column B,C,D. If i set width as 20, it is appearing in excel sheet by occupying only one column B. Even if set width as 100, i need the field value to occupy only one Column B in excel sheet with the extended width for Column B. Please guide me how to do this. Is there any attributes in jrxml to enable this feature. Or while designing in iReport itself any settings can be done ? This is most urgent requirement in my project. I have searched in google too. But did not get any apporpriate results. kindly help me to overcome this issue. Provide me links if any to refer the concepts mentioned above.