Gustav Brock
gustav at cactus.dk
Tue Mar 16 06:51:29 CST 2004
Hi Terri > There are a lot of memo fields that might need special formatting - > bolding, italics, bullets, etc. When I looked into using the > richtext ocx, you had to set up buttons for each formatting need. Yes, for a client I have Normal, Bold, Italic, and Underline - that's all they need. Of course, if you need more elaborate formatting you'll soon find yourself designing a WordPad clone. By the way, both the ocx and WordPad depends on the same richtex dll. > The issue would still be the same since the richtext feature is an > ActiveX control and that does not translate to Word - unless you can > tell me how to do that. There's nothing to do ... every memo field is an RTF document on its own and the control even has methods for reading and writing the content to a file. > That's FMS' pat answer - ActiveX controls don't translate over to Word. I don't know what FMS is talking about here. Again, there is nothing to translate - Word eats RTF files for lunch. /gustav > Terri Jarus > Director, Contract Support Services > jarus at amerinet-gpo.com > 314-542-1902 >>>> gustav at cactus.dk 03/16/04 05:43AM >>> > Hi Terri > Well, if all you need is some simple formatting, the MS richtext ocx will > do if you add some buttons and associated code. > /gustav >> Is anybody using this software? I purchased it a few weeks ago and I'm running into some issues of which I was unaware. >> My key reason for getting this software was to have the ability to format memo fields and then export them to Word. However, I was unaware of the difficulty in doing this. >> Is there some other 3rd party software that allows this functionality? >> Thanks for any hints, tips or advice. >> Terri Jarus >> Director, Contract Support Services >> jarus at amerinet-gpo.com >> 314-542-1902