Thanks, I will investigate it and let U know how I make out!
Steve

>>How do most of U develop cross tab reports in VFP
>>3.0. I have routines which populate big ole
>>character 200 fields with pre-formatted data.
>>Then I display them on the a VFP report form.
>>This approach works fine as long as I use a fixed
>>space font like courier. The VFP report
>>gernerator, to my knowledge, does not provide a
>>mechanism to develop cross tab reports, like
>>Crystal Reports or some other report writer
>>(R&R?). So, has anyone developed a method to
>>perform this menecing task? or Has anyone used a
>>third party report writer to interface with VFP
>>tables and produce cross tab reports. There has
>>to be an easier way to do it than I am currently.
>>I also considered using Excel as a report engine.
>>I have seen this done by other developers, but it
>>sounds a little wierd. Any input is welcome.
>>
>
>
>Visual FoxPro ships with a program called
>vfpxtab.prg
>located in the \VFP subdirectory.
>
>With this program you can do you cross tabulation
>to a
>temporary file and then use the temporary file to
>either drive a report or produce screen output.
>
>If you have trouble using it, let me know and I
>will send
>you some sample code.
>
>
>Chris

Steve Medvid
Systems Analyst

Environmental Resource Management