Using Excel Formatting
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If you use Excel formatting, your formatting selections, including conditional formatting, are applied and retained on the grid when you refresh or perform ad hoc operations.
When you use Excel formatting, Oracle Smart View for Office does not reformat cells based on your grid operations, and it does not mark cells as dirty when you change data values. Smart View does preserve the formatting on the worksheet between operations.
Using Excel formatting is generally preferable for highly formatted reports, and you must use Excel formatting for data sources whose application-specific colors are not supported by the Excel color palate.
To use Excel formatting on ad hoc grids:
Example 6-1 Excel Formatting and Merged Cells
To preserve the merged cell formatting during ad hoc operations (except pivot and undo), you must select both Use Excel Formatting and Preserve Formulas and Comments in ad hoc operations options.
To replicate merged cell formatting during ad hoc operations (except Pivot), you must select all of Use Excel Formatting, Preserve Formulas and Comments in ad hoc operations, and Formula Fill options.
Example 6-2 Excel Formatting and Member Indentation
With the Use Excel Formatting option selected, and the Member Indentation option set to None, row members retain their indentation. The loss of indentation applies only to column members.
Note that the Indentation option applies only to ad hoc sheets; it does not apply to forms. See "Indentation" in the Table 20-1 table.
Note:
In a Windows 8.1, 32-bit with Office 2013, 32-bit environment, while performing ad hoc operations, Excel may become unresponsive to right-clicks within the sheet; for example, when attempting to pivot using drag-and-drop.