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    SAP Tips&Tricks For End Users

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    This document provides tips and tricks for SAP end users. It discusses how to manage report layouts such as setting summation levels and column widths. It also covers exporting reports to Excel and performing selections, cuts, and pastes. The document provides guidance on background processing, user parameters, and settings to personalize the SAP GUI.

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    SAP Tips&Tricks For End Users

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    This document provides tips and tricks for SAP end users. It discusses how to manage report layouts such as setting summation levels and column widths. It also covers exporting reports to Excel and performing selections, cuts, and pastes. The document provides guidance on background processing, user parameters, and settings to personalize the SAP GUI.

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    This document provides tips and tricks for SAP end users. It discusses how to manage report layouts such as setting summation levels and column widths. It also covers exporting reports to Excel and performing selections, cuts, and pastes. The document provides guidance on background processing, user parameters, and settings to personalize the SAP GUI.

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    41 views3 pages

    SAP Tips&Tricks For End Users

    Uploaded by

    Prasad Nathi
    This document provides tips and tricks for SAP end users. It discusses how to manage report layouts such as setting summation levels and column widths. It also covers exporting reports to Excel and performing selections, cuts, and pastes. The document provides guidance on background processing, user parameters, and settings to personalize the SAP GUI.

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    The document discusses various tips and tricks for customizing and optimizing reports in SAP, including managing report layouts, downloading reports to Excel, using report selections, variants and variables, and customizing SAP GUI settings.

    You can rearrange and resize columns, set sort orders and summation levels, freeze lead columns, and save customized layouts as variants to use across different reports.

    Reports can be downloaded to Excel directly from the ALV grid, via the Report Writer, or as unformatted data. Drill-down reports can also be accessed via the object list. Cell merging can be turned off for easier Excel use.

    SAP Tips & Tricks for end users

    1 Manage report layouts ...................................................................................................................... 1


    1.1 Basic layout functions ............................................................................................................... 1
    1.2 Set summation levels ................................................................................................................ 3
    1.3 Select lead columns to “freeze” ................................................................................................ 5
    1.4 Optimize column width............................................................................................................. 5
    1.5 Save layout ............................................................................................................................... 5
    1.6 Layout management .................................................................................................................. 6
    2 Excel downloads ............................................................................................................................... 7
    2.1 In ALV layout ........................................................................................................................... 7
    2.2 Report writer & report painter reports ...................................................................................... 8
    2.3 Unformatted Excel download. .................................................................................................. 9
    2.4 Drill down reports via object list ( e.g. COPA reports.) ........................................................... 9
    3 Report selections, variants & variables ........................................................................................... 11
    3.1 Dynamic selections ................................................................................................................. 11
    3.2 Multiple selection ................................................................................................................... 11
    3.3 Selection upload from text file ................................................................................................ 13
    3.4 Selection upload from clipboard ............................................................................................. 14
    3.5 Selection variants .................................................................................................................... 15
    4 Cut and paste .................................................................................................................................. 17
    5 Background processing................................................................................................................... 19
    6 User parameters .............................................................................................................................. 21
    7 User settings in finance ................................................................................................................... 22
    8 SAP GUI – Options ........................................................................................................................ 24
    8.1 Expert settings ........................................................................................................................ 24
    8.2 Personalize SAP look ............................................................................................................. 24

    1 Manage report layouts


    1.1 Basic layout functions

    Example:MB51 material document list. Select ALV display variant / report layout.

    Creation date: 14-Sep-09 Last changed:14-Sep-09 Page 1 of 24


    D:\Documents\Data\SAP documentation\Tips&Tricks\SAP Tips&Tricks.doc
    In some transactions the following icons are used for
    maintain, select and save display variants/ report layouts:

    Position cursor where


    field needs to be shown
    and move selected fields
    to left with the arrow key

    Sort fields by
    clicking on
    column header

    Define sort order,


    and summation
    levels

    Creation date: 14-Sep-09 Last changed:14-Sep-09 Page 2 of 24


    D:\Documents\Data\SAP documentation\Tips&Tricks\SAP Tips&Tricks.doc
    Modify display settings to
    your liking. E.g. no cell
    merge for easy Excel
    download

    Try out your new settings

    1.2 Set summation levels

    …..

    Click on
    pushbuttons or
    summation boxes to
    set the desired
    summation level

    OR use menu bar to set summation levels

    Creation date: 14-Sep-09 Last changed:14-Sep-09 Page 3 of 24


    D:\Documents\Data\SAP documentation\Tips&Tricks\SAP Tips&Tricks.doc

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