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>For example, you write about a 'tremendous amount of effort' that was required to (my words/interpretation) replace the old preview routine. In my opinion that effort was not really successful, at least in some aspects.
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>Peter, you're entitled to your opinion.

Glad to hear that from you too. <s>

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>But your interpretation beats a straw man. That's an American expression; it means you're setting up an argument the way you want to set it up <s>.

Huh? There's no Dutch equivalent expression and I don't understand your point. Aren't we all setting up our arguments in a way that we want to set it up? Why don't you simply come with your agreements or counter arguments? That's what discussion should be.

>I never said that the goal was to "replace the old preview".
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>I said that the goal was to give you the tools you need to do anything you want as a preview, for example you can build one right into a form along with your other controls. And I said that the effort was successful, because the effort (to meet *THIS* goal, not the one you stated) *WAS* successful.
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>To your specific points (about negative numbers or whatever)... for goodness sakes, Peter, it's VFP code. Change the preview container to whatever you want it to say, and use whatever numbers you want <s>. I'd like to see you do that in Word <s>.

I have looked into the projects ReportOutput and ReportPreview and I think I see your point. I can spot the place where the number is converted to a percent (e.g. search for ZOOM_LEVEL_PERCENT), but I cannot locate the spot where the percentage is actually used to resize the page(s). Changing the containers is one thing (that indeed can be done, even by me), but can it be changed in such a way that e.g. 231 percent is also possible?


>Yes, of course VFPT can go down the hall and talk to the Word team. But more than a few creative and expert MS Word gurus would be *drooling* to have the chance to build their own preview with a couple of vb macros and customize it the way they want.
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>Maybe the Word team should traipse down the hall and talk to the VFPT team, instead .
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