Hi ?B?QnJhZA==?=,

Ok, if that part won't work, what is the correct way to save a "blank"
document with formatting infomation - such as landscape, 8 pt font, character
spacing etc - so the report can be loaded and take on these settings? Is this
a template?

Yes, that would be a template. Assign a template to an icon, and when you
double-click you'll get a new document based on the template. The problem of
getting the report text into the document would remain, however.

You're rather vague about what kind of programming environment you'll be working
with, which version of Word, etc. which makes it really difficult to give you
workable suggestions. From the sound of it, though, I have to wonder if it
wouldn't make sense to have an interface that transforms the pure text you're
getting to one of these file formats, that can be opened in Word and saved as a
Word document, if one wishes:
- RTF (any version of Word)
- Word's round-trip HTML (2000 and later)
- WordProcessingML (2003)

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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