>>Hi All:
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>>I have a report that prints a page per customer, with a field that contains a memo field from the customer table. 'Stretch with overflow' is checked.
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>>I now want to put an entire word file that's associated with the customer in the field instead of the memo field.
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>>What is the general appraoch you would take? Some sample code would be much appreciated, since I am far from an automation expert.
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>>Can I save the entire file to a variable? What would the limitation then be on the size? How would the lines wrap? And so on...
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>>Thanks,
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>>Yossi
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>Would not it be easier to use Word instead of Report then?

The report exists.

It contains other items of information on the page.

I might be reporting on a bunch of customers. My system is that I I have a Word file for each customer. e.g. Customer 'ABC01' has a file called 'ABC01.DOCX' and so on. So when I print the report, my idea would be to put retrieveword(custno) in the field instead of custmemo in the field. I would then have a function that would say:

function retrieveword(tcCustno)

lcFileName = tcCustno + .DOCX'
open the lcFileName word file
retparm = entire contents of the file, with wordwrap suitable for the report field
return retparm

Yossi