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Best Practices for Exporting Ad Hoc BIRT Reports into Excel

  • 1.  Best Practices for Exporting Ad Hoc BIRT Reports into Excel

    Posted 4 hours ago

    Hi, everyone. I run a LOT of ad hoc reports in Maximo and export them into Excel in the .xls format. As you know, you then have to un-merge all the cells in Excel before you can do much with it. When the report is large, this can either take forever or, sometimes, crash Excel completely. 

    Can anyone share a better alternative to exporting reports this way? Do some of you prefer to export your columns directly into a .csv? I often use that for larger datasets like I'm currently working with, but it requires its own reformatting to make it look "pretty." Any tips are appreciated!


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    Kristina Strozzo
    Great Dane
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