SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

1474941 - Crystal Reports field adds Character ' to the xls field

Symptom

Export the content of the Crystal Reports into Live Office adds character ' (single quote) to XLS

Environment

  • Crystal Reports XI Release 2
  • Live Office XI Release 2

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Create a report with Crystal reports XIR2 with fields Customer Name and Customer ID.
  2. Save the Crystal Reports into the repository.
  3. Open Live Office and import the Crystal reports content into the Excel sheet.
  4. An extra character ' is added before every character.

Resolution

The issue is by Design in Live Office

Keywords

KBA , BI-RA-CR , Crystal Reports designer or Business View Manager , Problem

Product

SAP Crystal Reports all versions