Unsupported Excel Formatting

IBM® Cognos® Analytics does not support some formatting.

The following formatting functions that are available in the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet software are not supported by IBM Cognos Analytics:

  • background images in table cells
  • Excel-specific headers and footers
  • text flow and justification
  • floating text objects
  • white space, normal, and wrap text formatting
  • maximum characters

Some layouts do not show exactly in HTML and PDF due to Excel limitations.