Excel 2000 report not opening

[lifzgud]

Hi ,
When i generate a report in excel 2000 in cognos report studio it opens fine (with a warning).
When i save it an open it in excel 2003 or 2007,It is throwing errors saying Missing file:a1 Missing file:a2 and so on.
Please help

[hpmkruit]

What is the warning given by cognos?

[lifzgud]

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[hpmkruit]

Maybe you're just saving the link to the report, not the report itself? If Cognos doesn't physically store the report you can't open it with Excel. i think Cognos just stores the run parameters and re-runs the report when you open your 'saved' report