web
You’re offline. This is a read only version of the page.
close
Skip to main content

Notifications

Announcements

No record found.

Community site session details

Community site session details

Session Id :
Finance | Project Operations, Human Resources, ...
Unanswered

Issues with Management Reporter Row Definition Exporting to Excel lost colour formatting

(0) ShareShare
ReportReport
Posted on by

Hi, 

I have built a complicated row definition in MR with thousands lines and I have to edit it from time to time by following certain logic rules according to our business operation change. 

Instead of editing it in MR, I usually export and edit it in Excel in order to use certain Excel formula. Then I copy and paste it back to MR row definition screen. 

When I format cells in Excel with colour, then copy and paste back to MR. It will keep the colour formatting. 

However, when I try to export to Excel by copying and pasting, the colour formatting for cells will be gone in Excel...and I am sure I have chosen the right paste option to keep the formatting. 

It will be so annoying to go through the colour formatting for hundreds lines each time when I edit the row definition.  

I know I could keep an Excel file version which has the colour formatting and the latest editing detail so I can work on it every time instead of exporting it from MR, but am I missing out MR function? Or that is some limitation of MR?

Can anyone help?

Thanks. 

I have the same question (0)
  • huijij Profile Picture
    19,811 on at

    Hi Ltan,

    Did you have this issue when there are only a few lines of data?

  • Community Member Profile Picture
    on at

    hi Judy, 

    I did some testing just now. No matter it is the template just contains one row or a few rows, when I copy and paste it into Excel, the colour formatting for cells will be gone, only the letter font and size are copied over.

    Very strange....

    Lei 

  • Ludwig Reinhard Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi Ltan,

    You mentioned that the color formatting worked and was kept in the past.

    Do you know since when this does not work any longer?

    Best regards,

    Ludwig

  • Community Member Profile Picture
    on at

    hi Ludwig,

    I only recently added colour to the template.

    The color formatting worked from Excel to MR, but not from MR to Excel.

    Thanks

    Lei

Under review

Thank you for your reply! To ensure a great experience for everyone, your content is awaiting approval by our Community Managers. Please check back later.

Helpful resources

Quick Links

Responsible AI policies

As AI tools become more common, we’re introducing a Responsible AI Use…

Neeraj Kumar – Community Spotlight

We are honored to recognize Neeraj Kumar as our Community Spotlight honoree for…

Leaderboard > Finance | Project Operations, Human Resources, AX, GP, SL

#1
Martin Dráb Profile Picture

Martin Dráb 664 Most Valuable Professional

#2
André Arnaud de Calavon Profile Picture

André Arnaud de Cal... 522 Super User 2025 Season 2

#3
Sohaib Cheema Profile Picture

Sohaib Cheema 303 User Group Leader

Last 30 days Overall leaderboard

Product updates

Dynamics 365 release plans