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Formating reports to Excell
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13/06/1999 12:26:44
 
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00229149
Message ID:
00229250
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15
>I don't know in VFP build-in capabilities to export reports to Excel file.
>You know command:
>REPORT FORM RepFileName TO FILE ExpFileName ASCII
>
>It is good idea for future version to have:
>REPORT FORM RepFileName TO FILE ExpFileName WINWORD
>and
>REPORT FORM RepFileName TO FILE ExpFileName EXCEL
>
>I solved this problem with a procedure in which:
>1. analyze report file by opening as table.
>2. create cursor with data, columns of which corresponds to control sources of each field in report file.
>3. Create Excel file with COPY TO.
>

With both WinWord and Excell, you always have the option of using OLE Automation; Word can use .DBF files with no problems, so COPY TO ... TYPE FOX2X will help there, and I guess you already found COPY TO ... TYPE XLS

>Nik
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