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url: https://docs.laravel-excel.com/2.1/export/export.md
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# Exporting

To download the created file, use `->export($ext)` or `->download($ext)`.

#### Export to Excel5 (xls)

```
Excel::create('Filename', function($excel) {

})->export('xls');

// or
->download('xls');
```

#### Export to Excel2007 (xlsx)

```
->export('xlsx');

// or
->download('xlsx');
```

#### Export to CSV

```
->export('csv');

// or
->download('csv');
```

> You can set the default enclosure and delimiter inside the config

#### Export to PDF

To export files to pdf, you will have to include `"dompdf/dompdf": "~0.6.1"`, `"mpdf/mpdf": "~6.1"` or `"tecnick.com/tcpdf": "~6.0.0"` in your `composer.json` and change the `export.pdf.driver` config setting accordingly.

```
->export('pdf');
```