Re: REPORT FORM xxx TO FILE yyy ASCII (VFP6)

From: Anders Altberg (x_pragma_at_telia.com)
Date: 03/25/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:21:43 +0100

VFP9's report outputs to HTML and Word can open HTML files.
-Anders

"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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