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Suggestion
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Resolution: Won't Fix
NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Cloud. Using JIRA Server? See the corresponding suggestion.
Summary
When exporting JIRA issues to Excel, it exports files in XLS files. The same occurs for exports to Word, which generates files in DOC format. These files have multiple disadvantages when compared to the new file types introduced by Microsoft in 2007 (DOCX, XLSX and PPTX). That's because those new file formats are XML-based, which allows for much better compression, resulting in considerably smaller files.
Also, Excel's new file format (XLSX) adds an extra layer of security by blocking the usage of Macros, which requires the file to be saved as XLSM. XLS files allows for any Macro to be included and is being blocked by multiple System Administrators, especially in companies with higher standards for security.
Example
Exporting around 4900 issues to Excel from JIRA currently generates a file with an approximate size of 7.5 MB. If we convert that file to XLSX once it has been opened in Excel 2007 or later, the file size drops to less than 10% of the original file's size.
Workaround
The Better Excel Plugin, developed by Midori, adds additional features for exporting issues to Excel in JIRA, including the ability to export directly to XLSX.
Please note third-party add-ons, such as "Better Excel Plugin", are not supported by Atlassian. Therefore, support and maintenance is purely responsibility of the add-on's vendor.
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Hi everyone,
Thank you for bringing this suggestion to our attention.
As explained in our new feature policy, there are many factors that influence our product roadmaps and determine the features we implement. When making decisions about what to prioritize and work on, we combine your feedback and suggestions with insights from our support teams, product analytics, research findings, and more. This information, combined with our medium- and long-term product and platform vision, determines what we implement and its priority order.
Hi everyone,
Thank you for bringing this suggestion to our attention.
As explained in our new feature policy, there are many factors that influence our product roadmaps and determine the features we implement. When making decisions about what to prioritize and work on, we combine your feedback and suggestions with insights from our support teams, product analytics, research findings, and more. This information, combined with our medium- and long-term product and platform vision, determines what we implement and its priority order.
Unfortunately, as a result of inactivity (no votes or comments for an extended period of time), this suggestion didn’t make it to the roadmap and we are closing it.
While this issue has been closed, our Product Managers continue to look at requests in https://jira.atlassian.com as they develop their roadmap, including closed ones. In addition, if you feel like this suggestion is still important to your team please let us know by commenting on this ticket.
Thank you again for providing valuable feedback to our team!