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<Mairead Lawlor>
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Hi,
I'm trying to make column totals from a subfoot be displayed in certain coulmns when the report outputs in EXL2K format. All the text in my subfoot gets places in the first cell of the subfoot row.
Code example:-
-* File SUBFOOT.fex
TABLE FILE CAR
HEADING
"SALES BY COUNTRY"
SUM SALES
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
BY MODEL
WHERE (COUNTRY EQ 'ENGLAND') OR (COUNTRY EQ 'ITALY') OR (COUNTRY EQ 'FRANCE');

ON COUNTRY SUBFOOT
"Total Sales: <+0><ST.SALES"


ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=REPORT, FONT=ARIAL, TITLETEXT=SALES REPORT, $
TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=SALES, COLOR=RED, BACKCOLOR=YELLOW, WHEN=SALES GT 10000,$
TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=MODEL, BACKCOLOR=YELLOW, WHEN=SALES GT 10000,$
TYPE=HEADING, FONT=ARIAL BLACK, COLOR=RED, BACKCOLOR=SILVER, SIZE=16, $
TYPE=TITLE, FONT=ARIAL, SIZE=12, $
TYPE=SUBFOOT,LINE=1,OBJECT=FIELD,ITEM=2,POSITION=SALES,$
ENDSTYLE
END


How do I get Sales to be displayed in the excel spreadsheet under the Sales column?

Thanks.
 
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Francis Mariani
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My guess is that ST.SALES is not the second item in the Subfoot. Since "Total Sales" is text and ST.SALES is a field, you don't require the <+0> separator - it makes ST.SALES the third item in the line.

Hint: when playing around with stylesheets, I always add COLOR=RED to my stylesheet line - to see if the correct element is being styled.

I hope this helps.
 
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susannah
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Thats just a 'feature' of excel, i think. when we use 'right click export to excel', the entire heading of the report is loaded into the first cell. the heading or the subfooting is a single cell in html, albeit with colspan = n ;
so when a table exports to an excel format, excel sees a single cell, and bingo, slaps it all in to a single cell. I think this is a billgates, not a focus issue.
 
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