Essbase and Excel

Is it possible to quickly determine Essbase member names in an Excel report? Are all alpha words on the page considered member names? What I would like to do is to take a report and through code determine the range containing column members, range for row members and range for page members.
If this is the wrong forum, please excuse me and just let me know.
Thanks,
IUI

Hi IUI,
Your post might get more traffic in the Smart View forum.
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Is it possible to quickly determine Essbase member names in an Excel report?
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yes
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Are all alpha words on the page considered member names?
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not necessarily
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What I would like to do is to take a report and through code determine the range containing column members, range for row members and range for page members
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You sound like you understand the Excel API, so with a little familiarity with either the Smart View Toolkit or the AddIn toolkit you can do these things in VBA with excel.
Regards,
Robb Salzmann

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