Export to Word

[princessinthetower]

In version 8.5 my export of a report with several subreports to Word is intended to look as much like a narrative as possible, less like a list (multiple academic degrees, memberships, affiliations for each person). Here are some limitations I'm seeing in export that are not there in display:

1) If a field is blank, the 'suppress if blank' does not operate, leaving blank lines.

2) When several fields or formulas are placed in a text box, if one of the values is blank, the following ones do not display.

To those who do exports to word often, are there any workarounds? My first inclination was to export to Excel and have mailmerge do the work, but the existence of these multiple text values for each person make creation of the datafile too complicated. Any ideas are appreciated.

 

[dgillz]

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[princessinthetower]

I will edit it into real sentences and print.

 

[Quaaazy]

Infobabe,
Have you tried downloading crxf_wordw.zip from the CR site, it is a fix for CR 8.5, which eliminates alot of formatting issues during export to word. It gives you a "Word Exact" option in you export choices. Cleared up alot of formatting problems for me during Word exports.

 

[pelajhia]

another good discussion of the foibles of exporting to word:
thread767-457059

 

[princessinthetower]

I found the fix dll and I will try it. I know there are limitations; just want to get the export as good as it can be. Thanks.

 

[JimHume]

Thanks to above posters! Found this thread through a search for a prob I was having with Crystal and it fixed it straight off.

In case anyone is interested the new version of Word Export (the exact one) doesn't include header/footer data on the language the exported doc should use and uses the default. Helps if your clients need to do data spell checking through Word Exports.