Discoverer to Excel Error

hi!
one of our users when extracting a disco report to excel encounters a column that displays different character, i mean the data on one of the columns is displaying squares or chinese character, when we open it on our excel it displays fine, we're both using ms office 2000, we've tried to reinstall her excel but still the same results. here's a copy of the screenshot, thanks sir/mam
http://www.gigagone.com/view/1141/pic.zip

Hi Enrique
If you're using 9.0.2.54 then according to section 7.7 of the Discoverer Configuration Guide Discoverer will split a report into multiple Excel sheets if more than 65,536 rows are being exported.
I've also checked the 9.0.4 guide although this time it is section 8.8 and once again the ExcelVersion preference is there, and it says Discoverer will split a report into multiple Excel sheets if more than 65,536 rows are being exported.
However, in the 10.1.2 guide, this time in section 10.6, that preference is notably absent. As I already commented in a previous posting, I am sure that you can't export more than 65,636 rows to Excel in the latest version of Discoverer. As you say, because there is no longer an option to define the excel version, as there was in earlier releases, I suspect that Discoverer goes off whatever you have installed. By the way the minimum version of Excel that you can have in 10.1.2 is Excel97 - refer to section D2 in the configuration guide.
This won't help you though because Excel itself has the limitation.
If I may ask: why would you be exporting over 100,000 rows of data into Excel in the first place? For a start that's breaking database security and possibly Sarbanes Oxley as you now have no audit trail of what happens to that data after you export it.
Best wishes
Michael

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