diff --git a/data/grants_comparison/.gitignore b/data/grants_comparison/.gitignore
index 1fd228cc..cd00363b 100644
--- a/data/grants_comparison/.gitignore
+++ b/data/grants_comparison/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 /meshterms_list.txt
 /comparison.csv
+/comparison.xlsx
diff --git a/pipelines/generate_grants/dvc.lock b/pipelines/generate_grants/dvc.lock
index 8c6a5d0c..d2b12d87 100644
--- a/pipelines/generate_grants/dvc.lock
+++ b/pipelines/generate_grants/dvc.lock
@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@ stages:
       --active-portfolio-path data/raw/active_grants_last_5_years.csv --bertmesh-path
       Wellcome/WellcomeBertMesh --bertmesh-thresh 0.5 --pre-annotate-bertmesh --xlinear-path
       models/xlinear-0.2.5/model --xlinear-label-binarizer-path models/xlinear-0.2.5/label_binarizer.pkl
-      --xlinear-thresh 0.2 --pre-annotate-xlinear --output-path data/grants_comparison/comparison.csv
+      --xlinear-thresh 0.2 --pre-annotate-xlinear --output-path data/grants_comparison/comparison.xlsx
     deps:
     - path: scripts/create_xlinear_bertmesh_comparison_csv.py
-      md5: 0a91bf23be4068bdc7c4b7a32d80ff2d
-      size: 8214
+      md5: a8ced1e8851e43f1902ba0d9dbf98781
+      size: 8350
     outs:
-    - path: data/grants_comparison/comparison.csv
-      md5: bc4fd9f4a670409dad07ffd03cf421f1
-      size: 596654
+    - path: data/grants_comparison/comparison.xlsx
+      md5: bd9ecabc26224fab96816fc7a6bd8be8
+      size: 195402
diff --git a/pipelines/generate_grants/dvc.yaml b/pipelines/generate_grants/dvc.yaml
index 18ac053c..1a30a4ec 100644
--- a/pipelines/generate_grants/dvc.yaml
+++ b/pipelines/generate_grants/dvc.yaml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ stages:
       --xlinear-label-binarizer-path models/xlinear-0.2.5/label_binarizer.pkl
       --xlinear-thresh 0.2
       --pre-annotate-xlinear
-      --output-path data/grants_comparison/comparison.csv
+      --output-path data/grants_comparison/comparison.xlsx
     deps:
       - scripts/create_xlinear_bertmesh_comparison_csv.py
     wdir: "../.."