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Macro to save out PPR data to Excel

Troubleshooting


Problem

A macro that saves a PowerPlay ppr report (from 6.6.X) to Excel 2000 closes the Excel application.

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Historical Number

104246

Document Information

More support for:
IBM Cognos Series 7 PowerPlay

Software version:
Cognos 8 BI Transformer 7.4, Macro Editor 6.1, PowerPlay Client 7.3, PowerPlay Transformer 7.3, Scheduler 7.3

Operating system(s):
Windows

Document number:
108909

Modified date:
09 May 2025

UID

swg21336740

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