Reports built in CR Developer - Exporting to Excel through Crystal Viewer XI

Post Author: Screenpoet
CA Forum: Other
I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question - so if not - please let me know. Currently we build small reports in Crystal Developer XI. As we only have this type of license (and only 2 of them), we only share reports to our end-users by having them install the Crystal Viewer XI application. Our users are indicating that they can open the reports, but when they export to Excel, the column headings are not exporting with the data. We also tried exporting in PDF and RTF format and the column headings do export. Any insight on why the Excel export would not bring in the column headings?

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