diff --git a/report_xls/__init__.py b/report_xls/__init__.py
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+# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
+##############################################################################
+#
+#    OpenERP, Open Source Management Solution
+#
+#    Copyright (c) 2013 Noviat nv/sa (www.noviat.com). All rights reserved.
+#
+#    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#    it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
+#    published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+#    License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+#    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+#    GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+#
+#    You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+#    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+##############################################################################
+
+from . import report_xls
+# vim:expandtab:smartindent:tabstop=4:softtabstop=4:shiftwidth=4:
diff --git a/report_xls/__openerp__.py b/report_xls/__openerp__.py
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+# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
+##############################################################################
+#
+#    OpenERP, Open Source Management Solution
+#
+#    Copyright (c) 2013 Noviat nv/sa (www.noviat.com). All rights reserved.
+#
+#    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#    it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
+#    published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+#    License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+#    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+#    GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+#
+#    You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+#    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+##############################################################################
+{
+    'name': 'XLS report engine',
+    'version': '0.3',
+    'license': 'AGPL-3',
+    'author': 'Noviat',
+    'website': 'http://www.noviat.com',
+    'category': 'Reporting',
+    'description': """ 
+
+This module adds XLS export capabilities to the standard OpenERP reporting engine.
+    
+In order to generate an XLS export you can define a report of type 'xls' or alternatively pass {'xls_export' : 1) via the context to create method of the report.
+          
+    """,
+    'depends': ['base'],
+    'external_dependencies': {'python': ['xlwt']},
+    'demo_xml': [],
+    'init_xml': [],
+    'update_xml' : [],
+    'active': False,
+    'installable': True,
+}
+# vim:expandtab:smartindent:tabstop=4:softtabstop=4:shiftwidth=4:
diff --git a/report_xls/report_xls.py b/report_xls/report_xls.py
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+# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
+##############################################################################
+#
+#    OpenERP, Open Source Management Solution
+#    
+#Copyright (c) 2013 Noviat nv/sa (www.noviat.com). All rights reserved.
+#
+#    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#    it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
+#    published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+#    License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+#    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+#    GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+#
+#    You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+#    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+##############################################################################
+
+import xlwt
+from xlwt.Style import default_style
+import cStringIO
+import datetime, time
+import inspect
+from types import CodeType
+from openerp.report.report_sxw import *
+from openerp import pooler
+from openerp.tools.translate import translate, _
+import logging
+_logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+class AttrDict(dict):
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        super(AttrDict, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+        self.__dict__ = self
+
+class report_xls(report_sxw):
+    
+    xls_types = {
+        'bool': xlwt.Row.set_cell_boolean,
+        'date': xlwt.Row.set_cell_date,
+        'text': xlwt.Row.set_cell_text,
+        'number': xlwt.Row.set_cell_number,
+    }
+    xls_types_default = {
+        'bool': False,
+        'date': None,
+        'text': '',
+        'number': 0,
+    }
+
+    # TO DO: move parameters infra to configurable data
+    
+    # header/footer
+    DT_FORMAT = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' 
+    hf_params = {
+    'font_size': 8,
+    'font_style': 'I', # B: Bold, I:  Italic, U: Underline
+    }
+    xls_headers = {
+        'standard': ''
+    }
+    xls_footers = {
+        'standard': ('&L&%(font_size)s&%(font_style)s' + datetime.now().strftime(DT_FORMAT) + 
+                     '&R&%(font_size)s&%(font_style)s&P / &N') %hf_params
+    }
+     
+    # styles
+    _pfc = '26' # default pattern fore_color
+    _bc = '22'  # borders color
+    decimal_format = '#,##0.00'
+    date_format = 'YYYY-MM-DD'    
+    xls_styles = {
+        'xls_title': 'font: bold true, height 240;',
+        'bold': 'font: bold true;',
+        'underline': 'font: underline true;',
+        'italic': 'font: italic true;',
+        'fill': 'pattern: pattern solid, fore_color %s;' %_pfc,
+        'fill_blue' : 'pattern: pattern solid, fore_color 27;',
+        'fill_grey' : 'pattern: pattern solid, fore_color 22;',        
+        'borders_all': 'borders: left thin, right thin, top thin, bottom thin, ' \
+            'left_colour %s, right_colour %s, top_colour %s, bottom_colour %s;' %(_bc,_bc,_bc,_bc),
+        'left': 'align: horz left;',
+        'center': 'align: horz center;',
+        'right': 'align: horz right;',
+        'wrap': 'align: wrap true;',
+        'top': 'align: vert top;',
+        'bottom': 'align: vert bottom;',
+    }
+    # TO DO: move parameters supra to configurable data
+    
+    def create(self, cr, uid, ids, data, context=None):   
+        self.pool = pooler.get_pool(cr.dbname)
+        self.cr = cr
+        self.uid = uid
+        report_obj = self.pool.get('ir.actions.report.xml')
+        report_ids = report_obj.search(cr, uid,
+                [('report_name', '=', self.name[7:])], context=context)
+        if report_ids:
+            report_xml = report_obj.browse(cr, uid, report_ids[0], context=context)
+            self.title = report_xml.name
+            if report_xml.report_type == 'xls':
+                return self.create_source_xls(cr, uid, ids, data, context)
+        elif context.get('xls_export'):
+            return self.create_source_xls(cr, uid, ids, data, context)
+        return super(report_xls, self).create(cr, uid, ids, data, context)
+
+    def create_source_xls(self, cr, uid, ids, data, context=None):
+        if not context: context = {}
+        parser_instance = self.parser(cr, uid, self.name2, context)
+        self.parser_instance = parser_instance
+        objs = self.getObjects(cr, uid, ids, context)
+        parser_instance.set_context(objs, data, ids, 'xls')
+        objs = parser_instance.localcontext['objects']
+        n = cStringIO.StringIO()
+        wb = xlwt.Workbook(encoding='utf-8')
+        _p = AttrDict(parser_instance.localcontext)
+        _xs = self.xls_styles
+        self.generate_xls_report(_p, _xs, data, objs, wb)
+        wb.save(n)
+        n.seek(0)
+        return (n.read(), 'xls')        
+   
+    def render(self, wanted, col_specs, rowtype, render_space='empty'):
+        """
+        returns 'mako'-rendered col_specs
+        
+        Input:
+        - wanted: element from the wanted_list
+        - col_specs : cf. specs[1:] documented in xls_row_template method
+        - rowtype : 'header' or 'data'
+        - render_space : type dict, (caller_space + localcontext) if not specified
+        """
+        if render_space == 'empty':
+            render_space = {}
+            caller_space = inspect.currentframe().f_back.f_back.f_locals
+            localcontext = self.parser_instance.localcontext
+            render_space.update(caller_space)
+            render_space.update(localcontext)       
+        row = col_specs[wanted][rowtype][:]
+        for i in range(len(row)):
+            if isinstance(row[i], CodeType):
+                row[i] = eval(row[i], render_space)
+        row.insert(0, wanted)
+        #_logger.warn('row O = %s', row)
+        return row
+
+    def generate_xls_report(self, parser, xls_styles, data, objects, wb):
+        """ override this method to create your excel file """
+        raise NotImplementedError()
+
+    def xls_row_template(self, specs, wanted_list):
+        """
+        Returns a row template.
+        
+        Input :
+        - 'wanted_list': list of Columns that will be returned in the row_template 
+        - 'specs': list with Column Characteristics
+            0: Column Name (from wanted_list)
+            1: Column Colspan
+            2: Column Size (unit = the width of the character ’0′ as it appears in the sheet’s default font)
+            3: Column Type
+            4: Column Data
+            5: Column Formula (or 'None' for Data)
+            6: Column Style
+        """
+        r = []
+        col = 0
+        for w in wanted_list:
+            found = False
+            for s in specs:
+                if s[0] == w:
+                    found = True
+                    s_len = len(s)
+                    c = list(s[:5])
+                    # set write_cell_func or formula
+                    if s_len > 5 and s[5] is not None:
+                        c.append({'formula': s[5]})
+                    else:
+                        c.append({'write_cell_func': report_xls.xls_types[c[3]]})
+                    # Set custom cell style
+                    if s_len > 6 and s[6] is not None:
+                        c.append(s[6])
+                    else:
+                        c.append(None)
+                    # Set cell formula
+                    if s_len > 7 and s[7] is not None:
+                        c.append(s[7])
+                    else:
+                        c.append(None)                        
+                    r.append((col, c[1], c))
+                    col += c[1]
+                    break
+            if not found:
+                _logger.warn("report_xls.xls_row_template, column '%s' not found in specs", w)
+        return r
+    
+    def xls_write_row(self, ws, row_pos, row_data, row_style=default_style, set_column_size=False):
+        r = ws.row(row_pos)
+        for col, size, spec in row_data:
+            data = spec[4]
+            formula = spec[5].get('formula') and xlwt.Formula(spec[5]['formula']) or None
+            style = spec[6] and spec[6] or row_style
+            if not data:
+                # if no data, use default values
+                data = report_xls.xls_types_default[spec[3]]
+            if size != 1:
+                if formula:
+                    ws.write_merge(row_pos, row_pos, col, col+size-1, data, style)
+                else:
+                    ws.write_merge(row_pos, row_pos, col, col+size-1, data, style)
+            else:
+                if formula:
+                    ws.write(row_pos, col, formula, style)
+                else:
+                    spec[5]['write_cell_func'](r, col, data, style)
+            if set_column_size:
+                ws.col(col).width = spec[2] * 256
+        return row_pos + 1
+               
+# vim:expandtab:smartindent:tabstop=4:softtabstop=4:shiftwidth=4:
diff --git a/report_xls/utils.py b/report_xls/utils.py
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+# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
+##############################################################################
+#
+#    OpenERP, Open Source Management Solution
+#
+#    Copyright (c) 2013 Noviat nv/sa (www.noviat.com). All rights reserved.
+#
+#    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#    it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
+#    published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+#    License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+#    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+#    GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+#
+#    You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+#    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+##############################################################################
+#
+
+def _render(code):
+    return compile(code, '<string>', 'eval') 
+
+def rowcol_to_cell(row, col, row_abs=False, col_abs=False):
+    # Code based upon utils from xlwt distribution
+    """
+    Convert numeric row/col notation to an Excel cell reference string in A1 notation.
+    """
+    d = col // 26
+    m = col % 26
+    chr1 = ""    # Most significant character in AA1
+    if row_abs:
+        row_abs = '$'
+    else:
+        row_abs = ''
+    if col_abs:
+        col_abs = '$'
+    else:
+        col_abs = ''
+    if d > 0:
+        chr1 = chr(ord('A') + d  - 1)
+    chr2 = chr(ord('A') + m)
+    # Zero index to 1-index
+    return col_abs + chr1 + chr2 + row_abs + str(row + 1)
+               
+# vim:expandtab:smartindent:tabstop=4:softtabstop=4:shiftwidth=4: