>>>I wanted to use crystal reports 8 for exporting the rpt files to
>>>Word (so i can send it via outlook to my faxserver as an atachment) and to text (so i can include it in the body of my emailmessages)
>>
>>I've found that it exports to Adobe .pdf far better, and that's a format you can send to practically anyone nowadays.
>
>The runtime PDF exporter is currently only available in an unsupported beta DLL that must be downloaded from the Seagate Software support site.

I actually used it once in version 6, and I liked the results. Didn't try with later versions.