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[Ross Bevin]

Hi everyone,

 

We give our users the ability to output a report to MS Word. We do this rather simply by naming the text file with a .doc extension and send it to Word. We have a macro that then formats the text based on a format code at the beginning of the file. When the user saves the report it gets saved as a true .DOC file. This has worked well for us over the years but is no longer ideal.

 

Does anyone use or know of a product we can purchase that will convert a .TXT file to .DOCX or .DOC? We need to be able to do this within ProIV via a SYSTEM call. E.g. a exe where we pass it file and formatting parameters.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Regards

Ross

[Rob Donovan]

Hi Ross,

 

I've not tried it myself, and not sure if you're running the P4 kernel on Linux, but you could try this... https://askubuntu.co...ia-command-line

 

HTHs, Rob.

[Ross Bevin]

Hi Rob,

 

Thanks for the information. No, we run on Windows which I think is OK for Python. I will get one of our .NET developers to take a look.

 

Thanks

Ross

[Marlon]

Ross, any progress on this?  It's something that's probablyof use to a lot of us.

[Ross Bevin]

Hi Marlon,

 

Sorry, no. It has taken a back seat to some other projects I have been working on. I did bring this up with our CIO and he suggested I write the output with .RTF formatting and send it to Word. Since our courier font reports are fairly plain this should in theory work. When I get around to working on this I will be sure to post the solution here.

 

Regards

Ross