Ole Odsgard wrote:
I need to know how I can "preformat" text output from a database
(i.e. bold etc.) so that the text file will be treated correctly in
Word. There must be a way of "coding" the various Word attributes,
but I have'nt been able to find it anywhere.

Insert HTML tags and save the file with an .htm extension, and Word will
interpret them when it opens the file.

For example, create a text file with this content and name it
formatting.htm:

html
body
This text contains a bbold/b word and an iitalic/i word.
/body
/html

Then open the file in Word and see the formatting.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org