>>>>>I've left your message on my desk for a couple of days, but nothing is coming to mind. Did you solve your problem?
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>>>>Greetings, and thanks for your concern! The problem has not been solved, but I think I understand what's happening, according to a message by Bret Empie. When FoxPro populates the report for data, if a point is reached where the remainder of the record will not fit on the page, a page break is sent to the printer, which is *exactly* what's happening with my report. It seems, so far, that there is *NO* way around this, which seems strange, due to the complexity and flexibility of FoxPro.
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>>>>Therefore, I've notified my client that, without further custom programming, this is the way the reports will be. I've yet to learn their reaction.
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>>>>Here's a question: Does FoxFire! have the flexibility to control page breaks wherever they are wanted? This is a utility I have wondered about having. Up to now, I've relied on my own programming.
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>>>>Thank you!
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>>>>Michael Reynolds
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>>>I've tolerated the report writer up to now because the users are happy to print everything on paper. But I believe in the ideal of the paper-less office. The report writer, which is good for nothing but printing on paper, doesn't deserve to be the standard vfp output medium. We need a flexible tool that will put data in a user-specified format to Word or Excel or some other file format in common use (maybe even acrobat). I don't know about any third party report writers, except for GenRepoX, which doesn't do this, last time I checked.
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>>Hello, Bret!
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>>You have been very helpful in my understanding of what's happening. I've informed my client of the causes of the report problems and am hoping they find it acceptable. I'm not sure what I'll do if they find it *un*acceptable.
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>>I've used GenScrnX and GenMenuX, but have not heard about GenRepoX. How would I go about getting a copy of this? I assume it's public domain from Ken Levy, or someone else(?). Too bad I did not know this existed before. One of my past projects allowed for custom reports, in which I automated the process of modifying the report writer data files (at run-time) to fine-tune the layout to conform with the operator's menu options!
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>>As for exporting to Word, etc., if I knew the file format of a word file, I think I'd be able to generate an output file.
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>>Thanks again!
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>>Michael Reynolds
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>Michael,
> Why export, when with OLE or DDE, you can call Word and pass it the data for the output??
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>Thanx!
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>Tony Miller
>Vancouver, Wa

That's what I'm going to do, when I get around to it. I would like to see some tool, like a visual class, which is as flexible as the report writer but takes care of automating Word or Excel and formatting the output. As it is, any class I make for getting data into MSOffice is likely to format the data for a specific report, and have to be re-written for other reports.