Export to Word and Excel

[DataDog]

CR 10
CE 10

I seem to remember that in CR Rev 7 (or early 8.5?) that when you exported to Word, it really did it without Text Boxes. It was EASY to cut and paste with this setup. Now it's next to impossible. Does anyone else remember this?
Is there a way around this (what I consider) limitation?
I already tried RTF and that's no better.

Same type of problem with Excel and merged cells. (Data Only is not the solution.)

Back when I was selling CAD/CAM systems, we sales types called this an "Undocumented Feature". The rest of the world called it a Bug.

DataDog
'Failure Is Not An Option'

 

[synapsevampire]

Yeah, I agree, export implements formatting that I'd prefer it not do, or provide mroe flexibility, merged cells being my biggest complaint.

There is the RTF, Word and Word (Editable RTF) format, not sure how much that will help.

I often create separate exports for Excel, based on a parameter, and use conditional suppression of the sections to provide a different look and feel to the output, other than that I don't have any brilliant suggestions to resolve this.

Of course PDF allows for export as well, but the copy and paste may not have what you seek either, and of course there's Text.

-k

 

[Madawc]

I remember when Crystal 8.5 exported without text boxes - there was an upgrade while I was using it. I'd always found the old Word export so messy as to be unusable. Export in boxes at least looked like the original. Excel too was much easier, at least for the reports I'd written.

As synapsevampire says, there is always Text. Even this can give difficulty; you may find it useful to set a high value for 'number of characters per inch'.

Madawc Williams (East Anglia, UK). Using Windows XP & Crystal 10