Repeat Column headers on paginated reports (Excel, Docs export)

[DatamirHub]

Hello, Did anyone manage to make the column headers for paginated reports table be repeated and fixed for excel and docs export,

Because I followed the steps of making the row headers repeat and keep visible and also the properties settings as you can see in the images, this works perfectly on the paginated report and when i export to PDF, but when I export to excel or Docs it doesnt work.

[HarishKM]

@DatamirHub Hey,
You can use power automate feature to export the value in excel - link

Export to CSV via Paginated Report, then manually insert the header row in Excel

Thanks

Harish KM

Please accept this as a solution if this solves your problem and give kudos as well.

[DatamirHub]

Thanks but my goal wasnt to do any manual work from the users and through pagianted reports

[Ritaf1983 · Accepted solution]

Hi @DatamirHub 

Unlike PDF exports, Excel does not have defined "pages", so the settings to repeat row headers on each page (like RepeatOnNewPage or "Repeat header rows on each page") do not apply when exporting to Excel or Word.

This is why the headers repeat correctly in paginated reports and PDF exports, but not in Excel or Docs.

Workarounds:

• In Excel, row headers can be set to repeat manually after export by using Page Layout → Print Titles. This is not controlled from SSRS.

• A possible but impractical workaround is to insert the header rows manually every N rows.

• In Word exports, behavior is inconsistent and depends on how the table structure is rendered.

This is a known limitation of paginated reports when exporting to non-paginated formats like Excel or Word.

If this post helps, then please consider Accepting it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

[TammyFinnigan]

This is a pretty standard requirement for a paginated report ... seems like a significant miss to require users to have to manually perform this step everytime they run a report.  Is this going to be updated any time soon? 

Dashboards are great for many use cases, but for regulated environments, such a pharmaceuticals, that require reports to be filed for points in time, this is a real headache for endusers.