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Is there a way to generate an empty report with a report heading and column headings using ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K? I need to generate an Excel report regardless of whether there is data or not. Thanks.

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WF 8205, Windows 10
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EXL07/PDF Output
 
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Hi Michele,

Put this line in your fex:

ON TABLE SET EMPTYREPORT ON

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Or SET EMPTYREPORT = ANSI if you want a blank line in the output.


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That worked. Thanks so much.
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Originally posted by jfr99:
Hi Michele,

Put this line in your fex:

ON TABLE SET EMPTYREPORT ON

~Jim


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