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Anonymous
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unable to get freeze Excel Column Header in paginated report

Hi Team,

 

I have set below properities to enable freeze column header in paginated report.

But When i export the report in excel, columns headers are not freeze. Could you please help me.

Thank you in advance.

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MSM2023
New Member

Hi All,

 

Should this be submitted to ideas@miscrosft?

 

Is it a limitation in excel, as the headers/rows export well to pdf, and can be then exported from pdf to excel, which freezes the headers, but that's a lot of steps, if you're exporting/publishing/emailing numerous reports.

 

Any advice/suggestions appreciated, but please don't point me to that god forsaken mssql tips page on adding the column headers as text boxes, or I'll send Chewy to bite your feet!  I had to do that crap in Crystal Reports three decades or more ago! LOL! 🙂

not that the site mentioed in the previous post doesn't have some great tips, although, that tips doesn't work well on various matrix designs, and it's 2024. I don't want to write a sproc to output the columns, and redesign every rdl.  Seems like there was a workaround in SSRS, but I'd have to go back through some really old files to find it.  

 

Anyone else out there frustrated with this???

Idrissshatila
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Super User

Hello,

you can use the freeze panes in excel .

 

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Anonymous
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once export the report in excel, freeze option should work.

is there any alternative solution can achieve the result in paginated report. 

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