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>Fred (& Jim),
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>I quite like Crystal Reports' capabilities in previewing - especially as it provides drill-down and export to multiple formats as well as multiple zoom levels. Way Cool!
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>Cheers,
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>Andrew
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>>No argument from me there! It is too often "weak". As a matter of fact, it is one area of VFP that I am quite frankly surprised has always been one of it's weaker points. I guess a solution is OLE automation with Word and/or Excel (or similar 3rd party tools). It's just too bad that speed and resources are such a concern there.

It's been one tool that has been considered, but has too many flaws of it's own. Expense, installation, etc., has really prevented us from adopting anything as a standard. At least with Word/Excel, a fairly large percentage of our users may have it already on their machines, but now the problem is: which version? :(