Unsupported report objects and formatting properties

The following report objects or formatting properties are not imported:

  • text flow, such as Kashida spacing and bidirectional text
  • text properties, such as word breaks and justification styles
  • top and bottom cell padding

    Left and right margins set in IBM® Cognos® Report Studio are imported in Microsoft Office Word to show hierarchical indentation only in rows. Support includes any specified Level Indentation properties that show hierarchical structure when a report is run. For example, when using a dimensionally-modeled relational data source for financial reporting, expanding the hierarchies from a dimension in a crosstab will show the correct indentation for the child members as set in IBM Cognos Report Studio.

    Left and right padding that was applied in IBM Cognos Report Studio to an object to add white space between the object and its margin or, if there is a border, between the object and its border, is also supported.

  • bookmarks that are used in PDF or HTML reports
  • scaling formatting, which you must reproduce in Excel after the actual value is imported Importing scaling formatting.
  • HTML items

    These items are containers in which users can insert HTML code. HTML items can be anything that your browser runs, including links, images, multimedia, tooltips, or JavaScript.

  • background images, such as watermarks
  • layout of objects that are embedded within a list or crosstab

    For example, reports authored in IBM Cognos Report Studio can contain list objects embedded within list objects, with specific formatting applied. When converted to the tabular representation available in Microsoft Excel, these reports may not be rendered in the same way that they appeared in Report Studio.

  • merged cells

    Report authors can merge multiple cells when adding headers or footers in the original report. With the exception of crosstabs imported into Word, merged multiple cells are not supported.