>>>Hi john, did you fix your problem ? i think i can help you, just told me exactly what you want...do you want to print a a lostus document from a report of VFP ? if this is what you want sned me an e-mail at
avaldez@grupo-logistics.com and we will see what can we do togheter...
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>>Hi Arturo,
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>>I guess I was just a little disappointed in the VFP report writer. All I wanted to do is something very simple. cut straight text from a text file into
>>the report writer. the text document was approximately twenty lines so I
>>copied to clipboard and tried to paste it in the VFP report writer. This
>>didn't work, but it would except two lines of text at a time. This was
>>just a quick report I had to get out with a few text fields added to
>>send a few hundred reports(letters). My question is why doesn't the VFP
>>report writer allow pasting more than a couple of lines of text into the details band of the report?
>
>You'd have to create a label in your report, pick a small font for it, make the label big enough, and then paste the text. But beware the 255 char limit - it may bite you.
Thanks for the idea! That worked a little faster to get the text in, but as you pointed out, there was an issue with the 255 char limit.
Thanks again!
John.