Sunday, February 19, 2012

Exporting to Excel from Preview Tab

I designed a report and from Preview tab, i exported it to Excel format and
saved. I sent the Xls file to others, but when they opened it, it is
displaying the Metadata info of the file. any idea what is going on?
In my report i have a table, and above it i have a bunch of textboxes which
serves as a heading for groups of columns in the table. when i preview it is
fine. But Exported to excel, some of these textboxes are wrapping to the next
line. any idea what is going on? (I tried aligning all the textboxes)
thanks.Don't know about the second issue but the first issue sounds like you have
not installed either SP1 or SP2. RS initially did not support Excel 2000 or
Excel 97. Starting with SP1 they added support for those version. My guess
is the users you sent the file to are on Excel 2000 or earlier.
Bruce Loehle-Conger
MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
"Giya" <Giya@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8B2D6E73-9824-40CC-90DB-5BAEFEFCEA82@.microsoft.com...
>I designed a report and from Preview tab, i exported it to Excel format and
> saved. I sent the Xls file to others, but when they opened it, it is
> displaying the Metadata info of the file. any idea what is going on?
> In my report i have a table, and above it i have a bunch of textboxes
> which
> serves as a heading for groups of columns in the table. when i preview it
> is
> fine. But Exported to excel, some of these textboxes are wrapping to the
> next
> line. any idea what is going on? (I tried aligning all the textboxes)
> thanks.|||thanks.
"Bruce L-C [MVP]" wrote:
> Don't know about the second issue but the first issue sounds like you have
> not installed either SP1 or SP2. RS initially did not support Excel 2000 or
> Excel 97. Starting with SP1 they added support for those version. My guess
> is the users you sent the file to are on Excel 2000 or earlier.
>
> --
> Bruce Loehle-Conger
> MVP SQL Server Reporting Services
> "Giya" <Giya@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8B2D6E73-9824-40CC-90DB-5BAEFEFCEA82@.microsoft.com...
> >I designed a report and from Preview tab, i exported it to Excel format and
> > saved. I sent the Xls file to others, but when they opened it, it is
> > displaying the Metadata info of the file. any idea what is going on?
> >
> > In my report i have a table, and above it i have a bunch of textboxes
> > which
> > serves as a heading for groups of columns in the table. when i preview it
> > is
> > fine. But Exported to excel, some of these textboxes are wrapping to the
> > next
> > line. any idea what is going on? (I tried aligning all the textboxes)
> >
> > thanks.
>
>

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