>Hello All,
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>How do you get the font to follow a report from vfp5 to Word 2000.
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>I'm printing a report to a text file that can be opened in Word 2000 and then be massaged.
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>My default in the vfp5 report writer is arial 8pt. normal.
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>My default in Word 2000 is the same.
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>When I do this, "repo form strpconsignorstatement to file tempreport ascii" and, then load "Word" and open the document I get a "File Conversion" box, where I select "Plain text".
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>When the document opens it contains the font "Courier New" 10 pt.
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>Why won't it keep my default fonts? Is there something I can add to the vfp5 command to carry the fonts to the text file?
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The problem is that the default font that Word has for imported text files is Courier 10 - a monospaced font which makes sense for columnar reports received as ASCII text. Obviously, as ASCII text, there are no embedded control characters.

You might want to investigate using Word Automation to get the file formatted for you, either by feeding the data in via a mailmerge, or by directly inserting the text line-by-line into the document after setting some defaults like font and page height and width.