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Moogle
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Hi,

I am using Report Caster to send out a bunch of Excel reports to some clients. For some reason, some of them are not able to open the files in excel properly; they see the contents the same as if they opened the document in notepad (IE. mime format... x document blah blah blah). They open fine on my machine and on anyone else's machine that I have access to. As such, it is difficult for me to figure out what the issue is.

When I open a focus Excel document, and go File | Save As, I see that the format is set to "Web Archive .MHT" by default. If I save it as Excel format, it looks exactly the same, but my users can then open it properly. Obviously, I can't run all the reports, do a save as and then manually e-mail them out. At least not without going slowly insane...

Is there any way to cause WF to save a real Excel document, or to have RC send out a real Excel document? Alternatively, is there a way to ensure that all users can open the .mht files? Is there any common issue that might cause the problem I described?

Thanks in advance,

Joey


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<Patrick>
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Some Excel functionality requires newer versions of Excel because they use Excel XML technology (that is real Excel format) that is only supported with Excel XP or newer.
Please make sure that users have correct Excel versions.

Greetings form Munich/Germany
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.eric
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I am actually having the same problem. I was going to try and recreate the excel templates in excel 2000 and see if that makes a difference but no computers at my work have anything older than excel xp so this may have to wait a couple days.

I know the customer I am having a problem with is using excel 2000 and the report opens fine for everyone at my work (excel xp or excel 2003).

I did try and resave them into excel format like Moogle did but the customer said she was still having the same problems, but I'm not sure if that is a user error or not.

If anyone else has any more input please chime in!


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Glenda
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We had some computers with excel 2000 and had to upgrade them to 2003 before they could view the reports. Unless as you said we saved them to excel and then emailed them the saved report.

Further, they could run the report and it would come back garbage but if they forwarded the email with the report in it to one of us with 2003, it opened just fine.


Glenda

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Qalqili
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Hello Glenda

kindly,check the Following URL it is related with Excel *.MHT Template:

https://forums.informationbuilders.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/...1057331/m/8821001961


Hope that will be usful with you


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Glenda
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Actually, we loaded Office 2003 on their machines and that solved the problem (they were previously on 2000). I will keep this in case we have any other users with this problem.

Thanks


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.eric
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I came up with a workaround for this issue. What I basically did is add come code to the macro:

ActiveSheet.Select
ActiveSheet.Copy
ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs Filename:= _
"C:\Documents and Settings\admin\Desktop\test.xls", FileFormat:=xlNormal, _
Password:="", WriteResPassword:="", ReadOnlyRecommended:=False, _
CreateBackup:=False

which basically copies the active sheet to a new workbook, and the nice part is it copies all the formatting and what not into the new workbook.

The only way I can get this to work is by setting it to send the report to an ftp location on the service, create a simple dos app which basially opens the excel workbook and then closes it and then I have to setup another report caster job to send the file off to the customer.

Eric


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