EDDIE/Web Intelligence Rich Client - Formatting Reports to Export to Excel

Formatting Web Intelligence reports to export to Excel.

Being able to save your reports to Excel is a great feature, although it can be frustrating each time you save a document to Excel, you have to clean up unwanted columns and rows. To eliminate this extra work, follow this simple formatting in Web Intelligence.

  • In the Format panel, click Report Element Format in the top row of icons and Display Settings in the bottom row of icons.

Format - Display

  • Click in a white space in the Reports panel to ensure you've selected the report itself.
  • Un-check the Report header and Report footer boxes under Layout.

Header and footer checkboxes unchecked

  • Click the Report title cell and Delete it.

delete report title cell

  • Click in the table, so the outer border of the table is highlighted blue.

Table selected

  • In the Format panel, click Report Element Format in the top row of icons and Layout Settings in the bottom row of icons.

Format-Layout

  • In the Relative Position section, change the value for both to 0.

Changes to relative position

  • Now when you export this report to Excel, the first column's header cell is in A1.

final excel sheet