When exporting a set of issues to Excel, customisation to the layout templates are controlled in Velocity files. Velocity templates for the export formats are defined in file /atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/system-issueviews-plugin.xml. The following files in particular define the Excel views:

atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/templates/plugins/searchrequestviews/searchrequest-excel-header.vm
atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/templates/plugins/searchrequestviews/searchrequest-excel-footer.vm
atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/templates/plugins/searchrequestviews/searchrequest-description-header.vm

Refer to Microsoft® Office HTML and XML Reference for further information on the syntax of the template contents.

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|| Severity | Low 
Article ID: JIRAKB{pageid} 


[http://support.atlassian.com/browse/JSP-20921]
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