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Export for Excel Troubleshooting

This section reviews formatting issues that occur in Export for Excel.

Structural Differences

Structural differences are discrepancies between the existing Excel report and the current model data within Contributor that will be used to refresh the report. If the two structures are different, a message will appear notifying you of the difference and ask you whether or not you want to resolve the difference.

If you choose:

Laminations

Laminations are two or more dimensions merged into one axis (row or column). You can use laminations to reduce the number of pages in your report by moving page dimensions to either rows or columns.

Merge Duplicate Header Cells

When the header cells of laminated dimensions are merged, the repeated sequential header names are shown in merged cells rather than repeated in each unmerged cell. See example below.

Merged

 

Not Merged

Y

  

A

Y

B

X

 

B

X

Y