>>>>I'm having a heck of a time getting text into the report writer from a simple text file. I have a letter that was composed in Lotus WordPro, so I saved as text file and figured I could just copy it to clipboard and then paste it in the report writer as text, but no such luck. VFP is only allowing me to copy in a couple of lines of text at a time. This will work, but it seems there should be a more productive approach to doing something that simple. What's the secret to getting text into the report writer from a text file? Don't say don't use VFP report writer...my copy of CR isn't here yet.
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>>>>Thanks for any info/suggestions!
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>>>>John.
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>>>Would it be simpler to move text to memo field and use this field in report writer?
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>>Thanks for responding Ed! the only problem with that is I need text formatting such as bold, italics etc. otherwise, yes that would be much easier.
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>So it's not TXT, it's RTF/DOC file, right? I guess that MailMerge/Word Automation is more natural choice here.

Hi Ed,

actually it is all txt before I get it into the report writer. After it is there, I will be changing things a little bit...some formatting. I just need to get it in the report writer as one text object. It just seemed to me that the VFP report writer would surely be capable of such a simple task of pasting text.

Unfortunately we don't do MS Word where I work.

Thanks.

John