Why in some WebI reports Exporting Excel not happening - crystal-reports

I have 5 Webi reports and all these reports works fine. Out of the 5 reports , 3 reports i could export to available mode. But the other 2 reports too i can export to pdf or excel or excel 2007. Here come the problem. When i export to excel or excel 2007, i do not get the exact structure of the report, like the table and the values. What i get is complete blank with Report Tab name.
Have anyone gone through this kind of problem? If so please help me if i went wrong for this 2 reports alone.
Thanks
Niki.

First select the Table and Check in Vertical Table setting and if you see any Blank variable added into report, please delete.
So that report will extract without any error.

You can set preferences if you want to optimise export to Excel to preserve formatting or preserve data. Try configuring your preferences to preserve data or preserve formatting when exporting to excel and experiment.
Exporting to excel can be tedious, your webi report needs to be optimised to properly export to excel and preserve formatting and data

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