To use IBM® Cognos® Office with the Microsoft Office applications,
you must customize your IBM Cognos Office environment. Regardless
of the IBM Cognos Office application that you are using,
you can perform the following common tasks from the IBM Cognos Office
interface or the IBM Cognos Connection portal:
- Show or hide IBM Cognos Office, see Starting IBM Cognos Office.
- Set preferences for IBM Cognos Office, see Customize IBM Cognos Office.
- Set preferences for IBM Cognos Analysis
for Microsoft Excel, see Customizing Cognos Analysis for Microsoft Excel.
- Log on to IBM Cognos BI servers, see Logging on to an IBM Cognos server.
- Refresh data from the IBM Cognos BI
content store, see Refreshing data in IBM Cognos Analysis for Microsoft Excel workbooks.
- Clear data from the Microsoft Office
document, see Clear cells of content.
- Convert dynamic data to static data, see Convert dynamic data to static data.
- Publish a Microsoft Office
document, see Publishing an exploration sheet to IBM Cognos Connection.
- Open and save a report locally, see Opening and saving a report locally from IBM Cognos Connection.
- Download a Microsoft Office
document from IBM Cognos Connection, see Downloading a workbook from IBM Cognos Connection.