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    report export to Excel

    Is there a simple way to add an icon to the "Print Preview" toolbar to export to Excel? Thanks

    A5v7, build 4130
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    Re: report export to Excel

    Becky,
    The default toolbar already has several saveas and email as choices including one for Excel....click on the saveas icon at the menu/toolbar and a dropdown appears showing all of them--the last one chosen will then become default and shows its icon on the bar.


    Mike
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      #3
      Re: report export to Excel

      Mike,

      She has ver 7, I have ver 8 and that's not an option on my preview. All the others are there but not Excel.

      Jerry

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        #4
        Re: report export to Excel

        Save Reports as Excel Files appears in the What's New In Version 9.
        There can be only one.

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          Re: report export to Excel

          Right - I have the option to export to other applications, but not Excel. I use a custom toolbar in the program, and I can add an icon to exprt to Excel there, but in Print Preview for my reports a default toolbar comes up and I don't have that option. I can't find anywhere that I can edit it.

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            Re: report export to Excel

            Becky, Go to your report (in design mode) click on Properties and you will see the option to add a menu or a toolbar. I haven't tried it but you may be able to create a toolbar for your report with the Excel report & Icon. Of course this might overwrite the toolbar that comes with the report. Haven't tried it yet but will, just for the fun of it. You have to save the report before the toolbar or menu appears on your preview.

            btw, we could upgrade to 9 or better.

            Jerry

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              Re: report export to Excel

              Jerry,
              I remember now about Excel not appearing until later--had forgotten. Even though Excel does not appear as a choice or in the help I know that in v8 you can use report.saveas() with excel as an argument and it will work....don't know about v7.
              Mike
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              It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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                Re: report export to Excel

                Mike, is the attached "Save As" from a print review what you are talking about. If so then Excel is not their either. I have no reasons to export or print to Excel, but Becky does. Maybe you or someone could point her in the right direction to accomplish this. My knowledge in xbasic is "null". If I can't do what I want using action scripting then that's when I ask you CA's for some help.

                Thanks

                Jerry

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                  Re: report export to Excel

                  The saveas I referred to was the xbasic.... http://support.alphasoftware.com/alp..._.SAVEAS().htm

                  You can modify the system toolbar to have your own button and use the xbasic code to save or send as an excel--for sure in v8...But definitely not in v7.

                  Quoting Jerry Brightbill:
                  The ability to save a report as xls was added to Alpha Five Version 8, but not shown as an option. It is shown as an option in Version 9. However, if you uses saveas() to create a report in V8, you can use xls in place of pdf and the report output will be generated as an Excel file. Version 7 does not support save to xls.
                  Mike
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