>>I see what you mean. That means relying on Excel for ALL reporting needs (passing through ASCII just in case of fast printing). My application right now supports sending to Excel (with formatted results) any grid through automation, but I did base reports on the native report writer. I should now write the Excel formatting code for every report, but I have to consider first whether I want to leave out people without Excel (which I think is not a very polite move).
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>>Thanks,
>>Javier.
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>At one moment, I tried to automate StarOffice (which was free), but couldn't figure it out.
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>I think Tamar Granor wrote a book on automating OpenOffice (free, basically, the continuation of StarOffice). I read about this being quite a bit more difficult than Microsoft Office.
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>Other options include generating HTML output, and PDF - and, of course, the native VFP report writer.
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>You may also want to investigate third-party reporting tools, especially those that you can integrate into VFP - Crystal Reports seems to be the most popular.

Crystal reports is the one option that looks more professional. For some reason I have been always reluctant to use it, but I it seems the time to give it a closer look.

Thanks for your advices,
Javier.