Preview using Excel Inplace

Hi,
Could anyone tell me the reason why some Excel functions are not available when using Excel Inplace?
For example, the print preview. You have the button in the tool bar but it does not work.
Another questions is: How many other excel functions are not available and we still don't know?
Thanks

I have not tested this, but you might try the following.
The inline excel should be created from a template. And in the excel VB code should exists which call a customer event in Workbook_SheetChange. This code is executed each time a change occurs on the worksheet.
so in you r worksheet you should have the following code:
Private Sub Workbook_SheetChange(ByVal Sh As Object, _
ByVal Source As Range)
' runs when a sheet is changed
Call ThisWorkbook.Container.SendCustomEvent("DATA_CHANGE")
End Sub
this event you can catch in SAP, and reread the data from excel.
so now each change in excel triggers an event in SAP.
Not sure it works, but worth a try.
Joris.

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Info collected from search..
To create the template you do:
1) Run the report.
2) When you see the result (the AVL GRID report), you go to change layout - the view tab - mark the excel radio button, choose template sap_om.xls by double click and press enter.
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I all,
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