Hi,

I try to export a view into a doc. So far the export works without mistakes but the resulting document (doc) shows the fields of my view within a table that has an extra column for each field. That's not what I expected when exporting my data (written text). For me it would be perfect to get the same as what my view shows. For that reason I would prefer an option that lets me show the fields in different rows and not in different columns.

regards

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anybody
Primary language German
Location Porta Westfalica
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Issue summary: View changes

Same request here. I have to change the page format (less margin around the content).

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anybody
Primary language German
Location Porta Westfalica
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Related issues: +#1959640: Provide default page formatting for .doc files (portrait / landscape, margins, page view, zoom, etc.)
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brendanrjohn commented

Links above work a treat for creating a more usable Word doc. I think the question in this case was more about the view producing the content as a table, row by row, rather than following the format as specified in the Page view of the same content (eg 'Unformatted list'). One solution would be to exclude all fields from the Data export view, and then lay them out as you would like them in a 'Global: custom text' field, which is the only one you display to the Data export view.

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steven jones commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Sorry for the lack of attention to your issue, please accept my apologies.

Drupal 7 is going to be end-of-life'd by the community in approximately 1 month.

As such, I am closing all non-critical looking, non-PHP compatibility issues for Views Data Export to tidy up the issue queues and reduce the noise. You can read about this on #3492246: Close down Drupal 7 issues.

If you feel like this issue has been closed by mistake, please do comment about re-opening it.
If you feel like the ticket is still relevant for the 8.x-1.x version of the module, then please search for a duplicate issue first, and if there really isn't one (and you've looked properly) then change the version on the ticket and re-open.

Thanks to everyone involved in this issue: for reporting it, and moving it along, it is truly appreciated.
The Drupal community wouldn't be what it is today without your involvement and effort, so I'm sorry that we couldn't get this issue resolved. Hopefully we'll work together in a future issue though, and get that one resolved :)