Recent content by gogins

Dear all A new customer sends CSV files containing daily orders. I would like to IMPORT these orders into a DBF file. IMPORT does not support CSV files. It DOES support XLS files. Is there no simple way by which one can convert programatically CSV files to XLS files (which I CAN IMPORT)...

Tamar, Buffie Thank you both so much for your really useful comments which have directly helped me to sort things out here and added a great deal to my understanding of the topic. Well deserved Stars for your extensive responses.

Tamar hello (2) Following your hint I have found http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=265261 which gives good examples of mass conversion of any dbf to Word table. The example which uses ConvertToTable, works particularly well. Thank you so much for pointing this possibility out to me. I hope...

Tamar hello. Thanks very much for your response. I have spent so many hours on this that I am now compelled to continue with the cell-by-cell approach (which I can sufficiently control) and study the ConvertToTable method at a later time. UNLESS... somebody can help me by showing me how to...

Buffie thanks. A bit stuck with the values of the constants included in your code, and also with the ospec in .Style = oSpec Can you help? Many thanks, Gogins.

Buffie - Many thanks for your response. It certainly plugged a few holes in MY knowleedge. I would be also interested in a non-table solution: how can one arrange neat columns without the use of a table. I am not sure how Mike's comment fits into this public thread, but it is quite obvious that...

Dear All, I have a dbf table containing texts and numerics of various length. Using Word Autonation, I am trying to insert these values into a document. I do not however succeed in obtaining neat columns in the document. Tab-padding does not help. I have tried to use a table in the document and...

Dear All, I need a to compress a file into a .zip archive file from within a .prg and without screen interaction. This used to be possible under PKZIP: PKZIP gogins.zip gogins.dbf Can anybody help by letting me know what the equivalent command using WINZIP would be? Can...

Hello All, How can I embed an already existing Excell file in VFP8 form? many thanks.

Rick, 'Solved' by adding: thisform.txtDate.setfocus() to the click method of the CheckBox. Never had this one before. Many thanks.

Rick, Thanks for you very prompt response. I use: Version 06.00.8961.00 OS=2000 No code in checkbox VFP BaseClass, dragged and dropped into column. However: following your questions I have found that the checkbox works ok in V8 ! I work in both V6 and V8 and somthing must have gone wrong...

Dear All, Have created a Grid on a Form and added a checkbox to column7. Set column7 Currentcontrol to 'check1'. Set column7 sparse to .F. Opened a file where field(7)=1. Ran the form. Checkbox appears 'ticked' correctly. HOWEVER: when clicking a checkbox, the tick indeed changes value but the...

Mike, Thanks so much for the oDoc = ow.Documents.Open("test.doc",.T.,.T.) It is certainly of great help to me. What I am trying to do: 1. User selects, from an array of checkboxes, the names of several letters, eg Accept, Cover, Invoice, Statement etc 2. Using automation, letters are...

Thanks for your response Craig.

Dear All, Is it possible to programme and launch a word.application which to the user will appear: (a) in 'Read Only' mode (b) without any toolbars or menues if so, how? Many thanks.