Download a Microsoft Office Document

You can download a Microsoft Office document from IBM® Cognos® Connection if it was published in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence using IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office or IBM Cognos.

For more information, see the IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office User Guide and the IBM Cognos Analysis for Microsoft Excel User Guide.

Before you begin

You must have read and traverse permissions to access Microsoft Office documents in IBM Cognos Connection.

About this task

You can download documents created in Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet software, Microsoft Office PowerPoint and Microsoft Office Word. The default action for any Microsoft Office document is to download it.

Procedure

  1. In IBM Cognos Connection, locate the document that you want to open.
  2. Click more on the actions toolbar to the right of the document that you want to download.

    The IBM Cognos Connection actions page opens.

  3. Download the Microsoft Office document:
    • For a Microsoft Office workbook, click the View most recent document in Excel object.
    • For a Microsoft Office presentation, click the View most recent document in PowerPoint object.
    • For a Microsoft Office word document, click the View most recent document in Word object.
    • For a Microsoft Office document of unknown type, click the View most recent document object.

    The File Download dialog box appears.

  4. Click Open or Save and follow the prompts that appear.

    When you open the document, it opens in the application that was used to create it.

Results

You can now perform the same actions that you would perform for any Microsoft Office document of the selected type.
Parent topic: Administering Microsoft Office Documents