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Don Garland
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Has anyone noticed that if you use report output EXL2K, run your report, open the spread sheet and do a 'Save As'. It defaults to HTML. This happens using the EXL2K group and EXL97 outputs but does not happen if you use EXL95.

I know it's easy enough to overcome, just change the 'Save As' file type and move on, but I'm wondering if there is anyway to set that default.

Inquiring (Customer) Minds want to know.

Thank you,

Dgarland @ the Hillman Group, WF 7.6.11 GEN 02252010 on Windows 2K servers, Data-DB2/Oracle/MSSQL

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Enigma006
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As far as I know, clicking Save will save it as html but clicking Save As saves it as excel..?!!


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Don Garland
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When I run the report, 

 
   TABLE FILE CAR
   PRINT 
     'CAR.BODY.SEATS'
     'CAR.BODY.DEALER_COST'
     'CAR.SPECS.LENGTH'
     'CAR.SPECS.WIDTH'
     'CAR.SPECS.HEIGHT'
   BY 'CAR.ORIGIN.COUNTRY'
   BY 'CAR.COMP.CAR'
   BY 'CAR.CARREC.MODEL'
   BY 'CAR.BODY.BODYTYPE'
   ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF 
   ON TABLE NOTOTAL
   ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K
   ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
   END




I'm prompted to either "Open, Save or Cancel" the file creation process. I select "Open" and I receive the prompt "The file you are trying to open, 'WFServlet', is in a different format than specified by the file extension..... yadayadaya."

I select "Yes". The report opens in Excel. with the name "WFServlet [Read-Only]".

I select File Save and get the prompt, "WFServlet is read-only. To save a copy, click "OK", then give the workbook a new name in the "Save As" dialog box." The "Save As" dialog box comes up with the "Save as type:" set to Web Page.

I select "File Save As" and I get the same behavior.

Excel clearly sees this file as a webpage and not an xls file.
 
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Kerry
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Hi Don,

I checked with our technicals and was suggested that the following online documents may be of help:

Hitting "Save as" on an EXL2K file, the file type is HTML.
WebFOCUS does not save EXL2K files in true EXL2K format

Cheers,

Kerry


Kerry Zhan
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