• Word DOCX documents, the basic Microsoft Word document.
• Excel XLSX documents, the format for Excel spreadsheets for versions 2007 and higher.
• PowerPoint PPTX documents, Microsoft's professional presentation document.

Here are some limitations to consider when creating Report Templates.

• Word DOCX documents, the basic Microsoft Word document. (We do not support DOC.)
• Excel XLSX documents, the format for Excel spreadsheets for versions 2007 and higher. (We do not support XLS.)
• PowerPoint PPTX documents, Microsoft's professional presentation document. (We do not support PPT.)
• PDF, or Portable Document Format, allows you to create a formatted document and preserve its layout no matter which program or software was used to create it. This allows you to share your document with a large number of people, because the PDF reader software is free and ubiquitous.
• HTML web page.  We support a variety of HTML formats, such as with or without CSS.  Note: Outlook does not support CSS in HTML documents very well. (HTML was substantially improved in version 13.)
• Printer output is where a document is sent directly to your available printer with the inserted data intact.
• RTF, or Rich Text Format, is compatible with almost all word processors (Word, WordPad, Open Office Writer, Google documents, etc.). It allows you to exchange files between word processors for different operating systems. RTF has been around for a while and so is available for earlier versions of word processors.

With Report Designer, you can go from one supported Report Template (input) format to a different output format. For instance, you can go from a DOCX Report Template to an HTML file.

But this does not hold true in every case. For example, PPTX is not an output option for Word and Excel Report Templates, and PowerPoint Report Templates can only be output to PDF, printer and PPTX formats. Supported outputs will appear as active (i.e. not grayed out) in the output options for a given Report Template.

This table shows you which output formats are available for which input formats, with important notes below the table:

1. HTML input is for simple template use only. Many advanced features will not carry across to other formats in the output. See HTML and CSS Tags and Attributes Supported By Out Tags.

2. HTML output may not display format-specific features exactly as intended.

3. XLS output is limited to basic formatting and does not include charts and images. We recommend using XLSX instead.

There are a number of different image output types Windward supports in our Java and .NET Engines. The following table will highlight those image output types as well as the commands that correspond to the output in the two different engines.