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Enterprise Console: opening an exported report in some versions of Excel yields an error message

With Sophos endpoint security, if you export a report in Excel format and then try to open it in Excel 2000, an error message is displayed.

File error: data may have been lost.

This happens for the following reports:

  1. Alerts by threat: table
  2. Alert details: table

The above issue is present on Windows 2000 computers with Excel 2000. It is a problem with the version of Crystal Reports used in this product.

Note: No errors are displayed when these reports are opened in Excel 97.

If you need more information or guidance, then please contact technical support.