Have you thought of printing it to a .pdf file and attaching that file to your email? Adobe Writer is only $29.00 and the viewer is free. You simply 'PRINT' to the .PDF printer. Never tried it, but I will be in the near future. I want to do something very similar to what you are doing. I will use Catalyst ActiveX controls to attach and send.

Robert


>Ms. Bulmahn,
>I'm not as savvy as most of the people who hang out here, so this solution may not be best, but it's what we're planning to do.
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>If you use automation to print your report with MS Word in the first place, i.e. do a SELECT and then write a prog that pokes each line into a WORD object, you would then have what you want as far as formatted output to email.
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>As for saving a report to file, I don't think you're going to have much luck with that. The two ideas that spring to mind are:
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>- Can VFP 6.0 do this?
>- What about FoxFire?
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>Good luck!
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>Marty Smith
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>>I would like to send a report (generated with VFP5.0 report form) to the e-mail system to be sent to a broker outside of our office.
>>Is there a programatic way to use a feature like MS Word "send"?
>>The report has several fonts and shapes. I have tried sending the report to file but I must be missing something as I can't get it to print from e-mail as an attachment. I am also looking for an automated method so the user does not need to initiate e-mail manager.
>>Thank You.
>>Pamela Bulmahn.