>Till now i've been transferring my reports in word & excel and was facing version problems..(Errors in Office 95/97)
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>After posting question for this, i realized HTML option is also avl..
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>I guess Vfp 6.0 is giving option of transferring reports in HTML... if yes, how sucessful it is ?? Are the reports transferring 100% perfectly...
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>I'm still using version 5.0a, What will be the best thing to do ?? To shift to 6.0 or create my own class to transfer in HTML ??
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>Whether I shud choose HTML or Word/Excel ??
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>Can somebody pls help me on this...
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>TIA

THe way that VFP converts reports to HTML is with GenHTML. This program internally uses REPORT FORM TO ASCII to get the report to a file. The file is then parsed and converted to basic HTML.

This is fine, except the TO ASCII clause of REPORT FORM is a nightmare.It does NOT preserve field placement and some of your fields might be cut off in the output. What's worse, if you tweak your report just right so that its output works with TO ASCII, changing to a different printer might break it (even though you are not printing the report, VFP uses the current printer driver to render the text for TO ASCII). IMHO, the only practical way to get an HTML document from VFP data is to generate the HTML yourself.

As for other document alternatives, you might want to look into PDF. Once you have the PDF writer software, converting a VFP report to pdf is as simple as printing it to the Acrobat "virtual printer".