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As Rick (rgbean) says you have to be good in DDE or work to figure it out, but it can be done in FPW.
Instead of building ANY format/layout in Foxpro, you would format it within Word. You also don't need to hard code format it in Foxpro, merely set up the appropriate data and then pass it from Foxpro to Word via DDE. I had one application work this way and it did OK. It didn't populate the Word document too fast, but it worked and looked pretty good. My biggest user complaint was the speed and also the fact that Word would not reliably close itself when done.
Good Luck,
jrbbldr
jrbbldr@yahoo.com
Instead of building ANY format/layout in Foxpro, you would format it within Word. You also don't need to hard code format it in Foxpro, merely set up the appropriate data and then pass it from Foxpro to Word via DDE. I had one application work this way and it did OK. It didn't populate the Word document too fast, but it worked and looked pretty good. My biggest user complaint was the speed and also the fact that Word would not reliably close itself when done.
Good Luck,
jrbbldr
jrbbldr@yahoo.com
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