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Winnie
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Hello,

We have just migrated to WF 8 recently and are running into different issues with displaying data in our reports particularly Excel 07. We run stored procedures to get our data from our database.

With that said, some of our data contain special characters such as ">", "<", "-", etc. to name a few...some characters are accepted but some are not particularly the "<" and the "-"...these create issue where data in multiple tabs get deleted and/or formatting get messed up where image doesn't show or we'll get a message saying...

"Excel found unreadable content in 'a4h6j{1}.xslx'. Do you want to recover the contents of this workbook?..."

We need these special characters in the report and I have worked around other ones but I'm thinking there's gotta be a way to fix this.

I appreciate any input.

Thanks!

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Winnie

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<Kathryn Henning>
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Hi All,

Winnie already has a case opened regarding this issue, and we'll wait to hear more details from her side.

Regards,

Kathryn
 
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We've been having issues with "special" characters too. We made some significant progress recently by making sure we had the correct code page configured in WF. There are 3 places (that we heard of) where this can be a problem:
1. The WF reporting server (NLS Settings).
2. The WF client (NLS Settings).
3. ReportCaster (RC console then Configuration->Code page).

I suggest you check them and make sure they're set to the same value. In our case (Windoze), the appropriate value is 1252.


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Pam Kratt
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We are also having this issue. Does anyone know what the solution was to the problem?


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Michael L Meagher
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You can use 'SET HTMLENCODE=ON' or 'ON TABLE SET HTMLENCODE ON' to eliminate most of the XLSX problems with carats and periods.

Also check your code page can output any special characters in your report. I had XLSX reports bombing out because there were trade mark and copyright characters in several description columns. Using code page 1252 solved this issue.

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