Issue with excel report generated by Crystal Report

Question

Dear support center,
I am trying to evaluate the crystal report package available through the VS2005 Pro edition for an application at work. I am new to Crystal Reports and using CR 10 on my system.
Here is a visual image of my report format. I use a dataset to flood the report.
http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~jjzachar/CRHelp/CrystalReport.JPG
Here is the excel report I receive. I want to eliminate:
http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~jjzachar/CRHelp/excelOutput.JPG
1. The extra blank rows after each "data entered or shown in my report"
2. It seems like many of the fields are being merged. How do I avoid this?
Please help!
Thanks a lot for your time ... in advance!
Sincerely,
Jerry Zacharias

Answer 1

Swetha,
I export the report using "VB.net" code. So, I dont' really get any window options.
Here is the snippet of code I am using ...
Private Sub ExportReportFormats(ByVal fileName As String)
        'Dim a As New CrystalDecisions.Shared.DiskFileDestinationOptions()
        'a.DiskFileName = fileName
        Dim CrExportOptions As CrystalDecisions.Shared.ExportOptions
        Dim CrDiskFileDestinationOptions As New CrystalDecisions.Shared.DiskFileDestinationOptions()
        CrExportOptions = objRpt.ExportOptions
        If fileName.EndsWith(".pdf") Then
            Dim CrFormatTypeOptions As New CrystalDecisions.Shared.PdfRtfWordFormatOptions()
            CrExportOptions.ExportFormatType = CrystalDecisions.Shared.ExportFormatType.PortableDocFormat
            CrExportOptions.ExportDestinationType = CrystalDecisions.Shared.ExportDestinationType.DiskFile
            CrExportOptions.DestinationOptions = CrDiskFileDestinationOptions
            CrExportOptions.FormatOptions = CrFormatTypeOptions
            'CrDiskFileDestinationOptions.DiskFileName = "C:\Documents and Settings\Robot\Desktop\Trash\" & fileName
            'CrDiskFileDestinationOptions.DiskFileName = "C:\Documents and Settings\Robot\Desktop\Reports\" & fileName
            CrDiskFileDestinationOptions.DiskFileName = exportFolderLocation & "\" & fileName
        ElseIf fileName.EndsWith(".xls") Then
            Dim CrFormatTypeOptions As New CrystalDecisions.Shared.ExcelFormatOptions
            CrExportOptions.ExportFormatType = CrystalDecisions.Shared.ExportFormatType.Excel
            CrExportOptions.ExportDestinationType = CrystalDecisions.Shared.ExportDestinationType.DiskFile
            CrExportOptions.DestinationOptions = CrDiskFileDestinationOptions
            CrExportOptions.FormatOptions = CrFormatTypeOptions
            'CrDiskFileDestinationOptions.DiskFileName = "C:\Documents and Settings\Robot\Desktop\Trash\" & fileName
            'CrDiskFileDestinationOptions.DiskFileName = "C:\Documents and Settings\Robot\Desktop\Reports\" & fileName
            CrDiskFileDestinationOptions.DiskFileName = exportFolderLocation & "\" & fileName
        End If
        objRpt.Export()
    End Sub