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j.gross
Virtuoso
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Here's something I thought worth sharing.

There were a couple of posts over the past two years that noted odd values generated in Excel tab names, but no-one picked up on a cause.

I encontered it recently. I was developing a report with PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K BYTOC, and at a certain point in development the tab-names started coming out as

  • 1
  • recovered_sheet1
  • recovered_sheet2
etc., instead of reflecting the values of the outermost sort variable.

It did not take long to locate the cause: I had added a SUM ... NOPRINT (to generate table-wide summary values for a final subfoot), before the SUM ... BY ... that produced the printed columns. Apparently, BYTOC's action, which bursts based on the outermost BY phrase, looks no further than the first verb. In this case, the first verb had no BY phrase at all, and WF failed to provide Excel the necessary information, so Excel reacted by generating these tabname values.

(WF did "burst" the report correctly into tabs based on the first BY, it just failed to correctly specify the values of the first BY field as the names for the respective tabs.)

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- Jack Gross
WF through 8.1.05
 
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Waz
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If you want to ensure that the Recovered Sheet issue does not happen, build each tab separately in a compound report, this way you can label each one with the TITLETEXT tag in the stylesheet.

Also Excel Tab names can only be 31 characters.
Not sure about Excel 2007.


Waz...

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j.gross
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Good idea (generating a separate TABLE for each sort break, and combining them as a compound report).

As a side benefit, it provides a means to move the grand total and endnotes to a separate tab, rather than having them appended to the last department's tab.


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