HELP: Exporting to excel

Hi,
I have been working on this problem for some time now and I am no closer to
a solution/answer.
The trouble is that I have created two reports which are basically tables
which display database data, with the input of several search parameters, but
when they get to a certain size (it appears to be like this) and I try to
export to excel I get this error when trying to open the file:
************
Microsoft Office Excel File Repair Log
Errors were detected in file 'ViewRequests.xls'
The following is a list of repairs:
Damage to the file was so extensive that repairs were not possible. Excel
attempted to recover your formulas and values, but some data may have been
lost or corrupted.
************
From this error, it seems like an excel problem, but we have tried different
versions and we do have a possible workaround we got from this site:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb en-us 820712
but it is very time consuming and not many users have two versions on their
machine.
A couple of people have told me that it must be something in the report, so
I am wondering if formulas or something else would cause this, or if anyone
as encountered this before, or if anyone can confirm is this is a report or
excel error. It appers to be happening only for larger files, but I am not
sure.
ThanksThis command reaks havick on my emf files.
=System.Math.Floor((RowNumber(table4_Group1)-1)/10)
It makes all of multiple page reports act differently and look
differently.
Trint|||Specer23,
You made no mention of clearing out your user/system temp folders or creating a
new Excel template or being sure that there are no Addins or similar templates
loaded in your Excel.
Nor did you mention the scope of affected users.
These are all cursory steps to solving any MSO product issue and if not done is
a grand waste of time if not done.
You certainly could have a problem w/your report, however once you tip Excel,
you must do a little clean up.
I also would through trial & error, get to the magic number between a rendered
report and Excel or not.
Then I'd look at the raw data near that point and look for things like coma's in
numeric fields, invalid dates etc...
HTH
JeffP....
"Spencer23" <Spencer23@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I have been working on this problem for some time now and I am no closer to
> a solution/answer.
> The trouble is that I have created two reports which are basically tables
> which display database data, with the input of several search parameters, but
> when they get to a certain size (it appears to be like this) and I try to
> export to excel I get this error when trying to open the file:
> ************
> Microsoft Office Excel File Repair Log
> Errors were detected in file 'ViewRequests.xls'
> The following is a list of repairs:
> Damage to the file was so extensive that repairs were not possible. Excel
> attempted to recover your formulas and values, but some data may have been
> lost or corrupted.
> ************
> From this error, it seems like an excel problem, but we have tried different
> versions and we do have a possible workaround we got from this site:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb en-us 820712
> but it is very time consuming and not many users have two versions on their
> machine.
> A couple of people have told me that it must be something in the report, so
> I am wondering if formulas or something else would cause this, or if anyone
> as encountered this before, or if anyone can confirm is this is a report or
> excel error. It appers to be happening only for larger files, but I am not
> sure.
>
> Thanks