ABAP_to_the_Future

Enhancing Custom Reports with ABAP2XLSX 11.2
The class ZCL_EXCEL_STYLE_NUMBER_FORMAT has a whole raft of constants for the
most common formats for dates and percentages and the like, but as you can see
you can mix and match, and within SAP you are able to do anything that’s possible
with the Excel formatting options.
Figure 11.7 Cells Formatted Using Accounting Conventions
As can be seen in Figure 11.7, by the time the accountant has downloaded the
spreadsheet from SAP, none of the usual work to reformat the cells in the way
that he likes is needed.
11.2.3 Establishing Printer Settings
Even while I was still at school, I hear d talk about the dawn of the “paperless
office,” in which nothing would ever be printed, because everything could be
done on a computer. Technology has move d on in leaps and bounds since then,
but even now I don’t think that the ink companies need to be too worried. Realistically,
the first thing people do when they have downloaded a report from SAP
onto a spreadsheet is to print it out so they can scribble all over it.
Given that premise, the first problem your user is going to have is that in 99% of
reports there are more columns than th ere are rows, and be cause the default
printing mode for a spreadsheet is Portrait, there will be more columns than can
fit on the page. If the user tries to print it out without changing the orientation,
then the result will look horrible, with the information from one row being on
two different pieces of paper. Therefore, the first thing someone would do before
printing is to change the orientation to Landscape, then usually change the setting
so that all the columns fit on on e page, and finally add some headers and
footers and set some rows as header rows so that each printed page has header
information above each column saying what the column represents.
Why not do all of that in SAP before downloading the spreadsheet so that your
users don’t have to? First, change the orientation and make a few other general
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