BW Macros for Advanced Formatting of BEX Reports

Hi BW Gurus,
Would like to bring to ur attention for a small solution which i have proposed for SAP Tech Ed. As a BW consultant, you would have come across a situation where you had to decide a reporting tool that was flexible, reliable, user friendly, less expensive and that can be used with less training but still have all the features of Excel.
Topic : BW Macros for Advanced Formatting of BEX Reports
Abstract : The workshop will help you to provide advanced formatting with Bex Reports. You will also learn how to add and retain Formats in Bex reports with BW Macros. Advanced formatting includes retaining of formats with excel shawdow boxes, automatic print settings, comments, hiding rows or columns, adding calculations, changing color, maintaining report titles. etc. The solution will help the business users/ power users to maintain different formats of a report without going for any 3rd party tools like Crystal or Business objects. As most of the business users are familiar with Excel, it would be easy for them to maintain or change the reports rather depending on IT for each change.
For additional details please have a look at this
http://www.netsaptech.com/sdn/BWMacrosforFormatting.pdf
If you feel that this presentation is going to help you dont forget to vote the presentation at sdn.sap.com for SAPTech Ed 2006 - Las Vegas.
For details on how to vote click the below link.
http://www.netsaptech.com/sdn/sdn.htm
Bio of the Author.
http://www.netsaptech.com/resume/MMDinesh_Org.doc
Regards,
Dinesh Mukundu

HI ,
Can you please send me the link where I can see the material for formatting of BEX reports...
I tried opening the link which u had sent i your post but it is not opening....
thanks,
Nip

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