Problem

Your application requires cells to contain hyperlinks to other cells in the same spreadsheet, but the Cell.CreateHyperlink function only makes links to URLs on the internet. This article discusses a workaround using Excel's HYPERLINK function.

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Problem

You want to modify your reports with the WordApplication or ExcelApplication object after they've been populated with data by SQL Server Reporting Services. The ExcelApplication or WordApplication object's Open method can't pull a report from a report server, so how do you open a SSRS report with OfficeWriter?

Introduction

The need to get business data from a SQL Server database (or any other kind of RDBMS for that matter) into Excel for further analysis is universal. I would venture to say that anyone in any business role from marketer to analyst to salesperson to executive to program manager has had the occasion to say: "I need this data in Excel so that I can crunch it!"