I'm working on an existing cognos report where a user specifically asked me to make changes. When the user runs the report, they run it in excel. When the user downloads the report to excel the title isn't centered. This threw me off because when viewing my report in Cognos Report Studio, the title is centered. What is the cause of this and is there a fix? They seek this change so they don't have to manually make the changes in excel before putting it to their use.
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When I run the report in HTML or PDF the title is perfectly in the middle, only excel renders it off.
IBM Cognos has limitations when producing reports in Microsoft Excel format.
One work around for this problem is to use include the report title text in a table cell in the Page header block. Given below are the steps.
This also works for Excel 2002 format.
You can find some of the limitations for Excel format here:
Unsupported IBM Cognos 8 Formatting
Limitations When Producing Reports in Microsoft Excel Format
@MichaelYounani Instead of having title texts (6 rows) in 2 different table structures, you can move all the 6 rows of title in the same table. Please refer to the screen shot.
That way, when the report is run in Excel format, you can get all the title rows in one column and aligned to the center.