<p>I'm loading data from my database, and exporting to an Excel file via a method I found on this site: <a href="http://www.appservnetwork.com/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=8" rel="noreferrer">http://www.appservnetwork.com/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=8</a></p>

<p>It works, but what I want to do now is format the text before it exports - change the font and text size. Does anybody have any ideas on how to do this?</p>

I have written Excel spreadsheets from PHP 5 using the
```
PEAR :: Package :: Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
```
classes.  You can do a lot with this package.