Forcing Page Length & Width for Report

[madhatter2002]

Hi again tipsters,

does anybody here tried or has had any experience in forcing the pagelength and width of a report?

I have a laser jet printer as the default printer, I know that I can easily do this using the Custom paper setting, however, with the HP Laser jet, I can create a custom size paper unlike with using the dot matrix printer.

Is there a way that I can do this programatically?

you might ask why I want to do this, I want to do this so that when I convert the report into word, the word document will retain the size that I wanted and not the default size of the printer paper.

 

[DSummZZZ]

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but doesn't Word itself open the document with whatever its default printer is set to at the time?


-Dave S.-

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[madhatter2002]

Dave, I think word will open the document based on the settings that document has, like if that document uses a pagelenght different from the printer it will open that document based on that pagelength.

I tried exporting a report having the settings of dot matrix where I was able to change the pagelength during the design, ran it and have it exported to word. Fortunately the document retained the settings it has in the frx and when i opened it in word, it only shows from top upto the required pagelength.

I dont know if its a fluke or what.

 

[DSummZZZ]

Are you using something like FRX2ANY or something that can actually export to a word document, or just printing to a file?


-Dave S.-

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