h4. Introduction This blog is an extension to my previous blog eMail Reporting (eMail Reporting). This deals with the issue of sending out the XI payload in a mail attachment of different formats. Here let us see how a payload is converted to a Excel report or Word report in a mail attachment. h4. Approach Let us use the same XSLT mapping which was used to generate a report form the payload. But there is a small change we need to do in the mail pacakge to send a Excel Report as an attachment. In case of eMail Reporting (eMail Reporting) the *Content_Typ*e was set to *text/html*, but in this case we need to set the *Content_Type* as *application/vnd.ms-excel*. The following is the same XSLT mapping which was used in eMail Reporting (eMail Reporting) with just a change in Content_Type h4. mail.xsl h4. Source XML h4. Mail with Excel attachment h4. Attached Excel report Let us go ahead and do a small change again in the content type to receive a Word report as attachment. We just need to change the *Contet_Type* to *application/msword* and the mail will be received with a word as attachment. The following are the screenshots of the mail received h4. Mail with Word attachment h4. Attached Word report