[AccessD] Still on the Reporting

Keith,

    For ensuring proper alignment & formatting along with appropriate display of group footers, while exporting an access report to excel, my sample db named  Reports_AccessToExcelAndWord  might be of interest to you. It is available at Rogers Access Library (other developers library). Link - http://www.rogersaccesslibrary.com/OtherLibraries.asp#Tejpal,A.D.
 
    You could adapt the underlying approach suitably, for your specific needs.
 
Best wishes,
A.D.Tejpal
---------------

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Keith Williamson 
  To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving 
  Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 20:38
  Subject: [AccessD] Still on the Reporting


  Man...I forgot what a pain in the A@& getting reports out of Access is. 

  I asked earlier how to export a report into csv format....doesn't seem
  that is likely.  I need to ultimately generate a csv format file, to
  import into our sql-based application.  This is for journal entries.  I
  have written a couple of reports to generate journal
  entries....utilizing the different levels of grouping and summing.  A
  good bit of the report is taking data, at different groupings, and
  calculating percentages to apply to user-entered data (for allocating
  overhead to different entities and account numbers.)  Since csv is out,
  I am resigned to bring the data into excel...and then export to csv
  format. 

  The problem is that, oddly, when I am looking at the data on the report (on screen) and then hit the "Analyze It with Excel" button....the columns come over in different order than the report.  Plus, one of the fields is a text field = "00".  It keeps coming into Excel as = 0 (general format.)  I can't think of a way to store the values, and export values and formulas to Excel...as Rocky suggested.   

  Any help is greatly appreciated. 

  Regards, 

  Keith E. Williamson | Assist. Controller| kwilliamson at rtkl.com