Exporting Shared Column Reports - Excel

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February 3, 2023
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We love to use shared columns in our reports but need to be able to take the same format and export it into Excel. Has anyone been able to successfully export a report with shared columns into Excel or found any workarounds? Thank you in advance.

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Best answer by Madalyn_Destafney

I've found the same experience, unfortunately. I think even if you are sharing columns in WF, they are still technically separate fields so therefore export as separate columns. Looks like there's an idea for this that I just upvoted, it could use some votes!
https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/workfront-ideas/retain-simple-formatting-when-exporting-to-excel-such-as-having/idc-p/572162#M21385

skyehansen

this may be too fiddly but have you considered saving as a PDF and then converting the PDF to an excel? Otherwise, I would ping Doug Den Hoed.

KierstenKollins

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Thank you for the suggestion. I tried it out and could not get it to work as I would have hoped for unfortunately. 😞

Madalyn_Destafney

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I've found the same experience, unfortunately. I think even if you are sharing columns in WF, they are still technically separate fields so therefore export as separate columns. Looks like there's an idea for this that I just upvoted, it could use some votes!
https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/workfront-ideas/retain-simple-formatting-when-exporting-to-excel-such-as-having/idc-p/572162#M21385

If this helped you, please mark correct to help others : )

KierstenKollins

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Thank you! Upvoting this idea.

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