Instead of printing the report, you may want to export it into a file and distribute it electronically to your clients or co-workers. The Designer supports the following export formats:
Format | Description |
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Paged HTML (*.html) | Creates one HTML file for each page in the report. The HTML pages contain links that let the user navigate the report. |
Plain HTML (*.html) | Creates a single HTML file with no drill-down functionality. |
PDF with non-embedded (linked) fonts (*.pdf) | Creates a PDF file that can be viewed on any computer equipped with Adobe's Acrobat viewer or browser plug-ins. |
PDF/A with embedded fonts (*.pdf) | Creates a PDF file with embedded font information for extra portability. |
RTF (*.rtf) | Creates an RTF file that can be opened by most popular word processors (for example, Microsoft Word, WordPad). It can be saved as Paged or Open XML document. |
Microsoft Excel 97 (*.xls) | Creates an XLS file that can be opened by Microsoft Excel. |
Microsoft Excel 2007/2010 Open XML (*.xlsx) | Creates an XLS file that can be opened by Microsoft Excel 2007 and later. |
Open XML Word (*.docx) | Creates a DOCX file that can be opened by Microsoft Word 2007 and later. |
Compressed Metafile (*.zip) | Creates a compressed metafile file, of the type EmfOnly, EmfPlusOnly,and EmfPlusDual. |
TIFF (*.tiff), BMP, PNG, JPEG, GIF images | Create image file of type TIFF (Tag Image File Format), BMP (Bitmap Images), PNG(Portable Network Graphic), JPEG or GIF. |
To create an export file, select File | Export from the menu and use the Export Report to File dialog box to specify the location, File name and Save as type.