title: How to open a report viewed in report viewer in excel without saving it first in VS2010 C#
body: <p>I am building an application in c# using Visual studio 2010 with access database. I am using reportviewer of visual studio to view the reports which is working fine for me. </p>
  
  <p>It has option to export your report in excel, PDF or word which needs to be saved first and then could be opened. But I want to open that report in excel without having to save it first.</p>
  
  <p>I don't know if it is possible or not if it is kindly show me how? I will paste some pictures how it works</p>
  
  <p>Here in the first step you will have to click on the export into one of the three</p>
  
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  <p>Then you would need to save the report</p>
  
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  <p>After saving, you can than open the report in excel, PDF or word but I would like to skip the second step of saving it and directly open it in excel. </p>