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

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.

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

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

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