>I'm looking to find a stable way to produce reports from my system that will be viewable by clients, printable from the system, easy to implement and smart looking.
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>Currently in use is Excel automation, it's almost perfect, I can setup a neet looking template in excel, note the amount of data rows per page, and a nice bit of code will fill out the page save it as an excel worksheet print it etc. it looks as smart as I like, it's easy to maintain, I just attach it to an email and it's viewable by clients, they can even sort columns at their end to view the data how they want.
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>but: it's not stable.
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>Excel streams out a C000005 error a couple of times a day (at seemingly random intervals) taking the main system down with it. I've moved out the printing into a separate shellexecute() call but nothing seems to help.
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>so, without me writing bundles of code to make a neat way of writing out to a formatted html file what options do I have?
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>and where should I be looking? I'm not a report orientated person so give me some tips.
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>Ken.

C5 crashes are usually caused by original HP printer drivers, which are badly written. Try to use a Microsoft driver instead.