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05/01/2001 13:35:11
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00459434
Message ID:
00460246
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21
John,

I tried out FRX2Word and was pretty impressed with how well it renders a report in Word. One questions I have: I notice that the word doc uses boxes to contain the text. This looks very good, but makes it more difficult to edit the next afterwarrds. Does your next version address this issue?

A requirement that I have from a client is that a report is easily modified by the user in word after it is created. These reports are basic simple reports with one font and a couple of font sizes/styles. One thought I had on this is that I could generate the report to an ASCII file, and include some basic formatting tags. Sort of quazi html tags. Then have some automation code open up the text file and then feed it into a word document, using the tags to set fontsize/style. Thus one would end up with a pure text file the same as if you had sat and typed it in by hand. This file could also then be saved as html if one wanted to do that.

I am just wondering if you had ever gone done this road and have any advice on the matter.

Thanks VERY much,

Greg_
Greg Gum
Greg@Avasoft.net
Avasoft.com / Avasoft.net
800-586-5939
1861 Brown Blvd
Suite 738
Arlington Texas 76006
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