Hi Will,

For these particular reports the only desired output should be an ASCII file, that's why I came up with the Generating reports through programs idea. These reports work just fine in Preview or Print mode. In any case, after I invented this solution, I gave up the Report Writer and produced these reports by program at the beginning, IOW, some of them don't have actual Reports.

>Nadya,
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>Out of interest do these reports work in any other mode? (ie preview print etc?)
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>If so then I may have a suggestion for you...
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>Will
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>>Hi everybody,
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>>As some of us can see from several recent threads, I was struggling with VFP Report Writer recently trying to produce ASCII file from quite complicated report. Well, this battle won Report Writer and I'm defeated... But, not completely. I found my work around this problem. Basically, the problem is:
>>if you have multiple entries in any of the band (detail, footer, group footer, etc.), the ASCII file would insert additional blank lines, truncate words, do other "bad" things and there is nothing you can do about it regardless of different _asciirows, _asciicols settings (or at least I could not find this magic combination). The answer is: either redesign your Report again, say, in DOS FPD (VFP can run it, I was told) or use another Report Writer (I don't know, does Crystall support ASCII clause properly) or do it programmatically (the way I finally choose). Therefore this is a program, which would convert your report into prg file. Well, you still then need to work a little on this program manually, but the most work is already done.
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