Tips on designing reports for export to excel

There is a document mentioned in help that I have a link to and the link and searching never get me to it. Can anyone help me locate this...I need tips on how to better design a report when you know it will be used for exporting to excel.
the document is supposed to be called    scr_exportexcel.pdf
Thank you!
Kristin

Hi,
Try to search Product guides from http://help.sap.com/
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Shweta

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