I haven't tried to copy and paste, but my guess is that it is a problem with Unicode being added in CR 10. At that point, double-byte characters were no longer supported and all backwards compatability was lost.
>I have a CR 11 report and CR 7 report open at the same time and try to copy an object, such as a Text Object in a Page Heading from CR 11 to CR 7 and I get an error in the Seagate Crystal Reports 7 error message window...
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>Not Implemented.
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>No matter what I try to Copy and Paste from CR 11 report to CR 7 report I seem to get this error. I guess because you cannot do it. I guess they are totally incompatible.
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>If I cannot do this, this means I have to recreate the 10 to 12 reports that I created in CR 11 from scratch in CR 7. Is this true? Has anyone ever tried going backwards?
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>Of course, the CR 11 report would not open in CR 7, but I had to try it and see what happened. Of course, it gave me a Version Error.
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>Thanks for the information. This does not look good. Ewwwwwww!
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer