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Wep5622
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Is there some way to have columns auto-fit their contents in the EXL2K output? Our report users keep requesting that.

I know it's not terribly inconvenient to "select all" in Excel and then triple-click a column border to make it auto-size all columns, but I get the feeling that should be possible from within WebFOCUS somehow. I'm also getting a bit tired of having to explain that to people.

For an extra challenge, we use Excel 2003...

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You could make an excel template with scripting in it that will "auto-fit" all columns OnLoad.

And use that...

( we've made one that sets the page to landscape and printing options to "fit to 1 page" ).


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Wep5622
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Not in Excel 2003 I can't...


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Have you tried the "WIDTH=nn" in your style sheet?




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ABT
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Originally posted by Wep5622:
Not in Excel 2003 I can't...


Why not?

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njsden
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Did you try Doug's advice?

That's the only way I know to adjust the column width in Excel (wtihout resorting to templates):

TYPE=REPORT, COLUMN=N1, WIDTH=nn, $


I hate having to do that as I would prefer to rely on SQUEEZE=ON for all of my output formats.

Now, this may sound silly but if you can guarantee that your column titles are always shorter (in character lenght) than the data in their corresponding columns, then SQUEEZE=ON should give the expected results even for Excel. Sticking a "," to add a line-break in the title won't make it "shorter" as far as Excel is concerned as you may have already figured out.


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