Re: REPORT FORM xxx TO FILE yyy ASCII (VFP6)
From: Fred Taylor (ftaylor_at_mvps.org!REMOVE)
Date: 03/25/05
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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 00:27:02 -0700
If you want ASCII, you get ASCII. If you want formatting, you won't have
any way to "edit" that format as that's what the printer is expecting to
see. You can't have it both ways without some kind of interface between the
two (like Word).
-- Fred Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP "Peter Rooney" <magnetix@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message news:R6O0e.3403$z.2568@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net... > Outputting from a report to a file is accomplished with the above > statement, > it is true. But I'd like some improvements: > > 1) if I'm still designing the report, I want to MODIFY REPORT and then > print > from one of the menu pads in the Report Designer - either from Preview, or > with Report / Run Report. But I can't see any way to express the > equivalent > of "TO FILE ASCII" from either of these locations. Do I need to go to the > Command Window to print to a file? > > 2) ASCII loses all formatting, such as fonts, bold/italic, lines. But if I > leave out ASCII, I get a Postscript file that seems very hard to work > with. > I want to email the file, and for the recipient to bring it into his > wordprocessor (MS Word, e.g).. Is there any way to output a DOC file from > a > report? > > > > > -- > Peter Rooney > magnetix@ix.netcom.com > >
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