### Overview of Rep2excel CGI/Command Line Edition

Thank you very much for using Rep2excel. The Rep2excel was created in fall of 2003. It is a bridge between Oracle Report and Microsoft Excel. We created this bridge because Oracle Reports has not provided any convenient way to get report output in rich-format excel so far, so get complicated excel report, you should re-develop your reports now.

Rep2excel is developed for oracle report only, using rep2excel you can get excel report without codding and re-development.

Editions of Rep2excel

We deliver 3 softwares embeded Oracle Report to Excel Converter Engineer.

- Rep2excel CGI/Command Line Edition
- RepExpert
- Rep2excel Server

The RepExpert is software combined the Web Browser with Oracle Report to Excel Converter Engineer, in addition to view and print the report, you can also get excel output from the report. RepExpert has graphic user interface(GUI).

Rep2excel means Rep2excel CGI/Command Line Edition by default, it is a win32 console application (dos application).

The Rep2excel Server is software combined the Web Server with Oracle Report to Excel Converter Engineer and Rep2excel Command Line Edition.

Output of Rep2excel

Rep2excel output 3 types of file.

File Format | Execution Requirements | Viewer Requirements | Rich format | Speed
delimited | No | All Excel versions | No fonts, No colors, just data | Quick
Native Excel | MS-Excel 97 - 2007 installed on the computer on which Rep2excel is running | XLS file for all Excel versions. XLSX file for Excel 2007 only | Support fonts, colors, images, lines, auto resize etc | Slow
Excel-compatible | No | Excel XP/2003/2007 | Support fonts, colors, images etc. No lines | Quick

How to specify the file format

File Format | URL | Command line
delimited | fileformat=delimited | -f:delimited
Native Excel | fileformat=excel | -f:excel
Excel-compatible | fileformat=mht | -f:mht

How to call Rep2excel CGI/Command Line Edition

##### Rep2excel provide 2 user interface:

1. Command line interface
2. Common Gateway Interface (CGI)

To learn more, please see Call Rep2excel