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>Failing that you might have to try something like Crystal Reports, which I understand is more powerful but may not be able to do what you want to do here.
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Crystal Reports can easily handle this. The head, TOC, etc. would all be sub reports embedded into the main report, which prints the actual detail.
>>Also, I need a utility that creates a pie or bar chart from tabular data which I can distribute. Any ideas?
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>You might automate Excel (or some other charting program) and create a chart, then print to a .PDF with the Adobe Acrobat Distiller.
Again, Crystal Reports can easily handle this.
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer