Exporting to Excel, subreport column alignment problem

Post Author: rmayer
CA Forum: Exporting
I have a Crystal Report (v10) that contains a subreport in the Details section. The subreport contains only a single field in its Details section and all other sections are suppressed. When I run the report and export to Excel, for each main report detail having multiple rows returned in its subreport, the first subreport row will display the field where it is expected, but for every subsequent row the field will be shifted one column to the right. What is even more peculiar is that if I preview the subreport data by itself and do the export, the fields do line up in the same Excel column.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
- Robert -

Post Author: satyanat
CA Forum: Exporting
Gayatry,
Did you try the following Export options?
1. Export Page Headers and Footers: On Each Page
2. Create Page Breaks for Each Page
When exported with these options the page Header and Footer section was exported as it was in the report.
Hope this helps you.
Regards,
Natarajan

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