>Steve,
>They are specifying a number of things like grouping, fonts, etc before report is generated and then would like to edit the "printed" form in various ways.
>I'm considering Crystal Rs, do you use it ? All works OK ?
>TIA,
>Alex.
>>>Hi, All !
>>>My users want to keep copy of a report for later modifications ( not trough VFP app). Curently my app supports that my generating text file ( instead of using VFP report designer) with embedded codes ( for fonts, etc) ready for WordPerfect macro to produce WP document. I'm trying to use a different approach. Standart VFP :REPORT...ASCCII doesn't seem to work. The question is : does anybody use third-party tools for that ( Crystal, FoxFire, etc) or there exist some workarounds for standart VFP report designer ?
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>>Depending on what your users want to modify in the report, I'd suggest two approaches: one would be Crystal Reports; and the other would be simply sending the report information to an Excel spreadsheet where they can alter and change to their dear little heart's content.
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>>Seve

Alex,
If you are looking for a way for users to make and modify their own reports or packaged reports, I would look at FoxFire!.. I am partial to this, since you are using the VFP report writer and also get the source code for FoxFire!, if you need to make mods to it..