I have a program that generates reports. Before sending them to the screen
it gives an option to choose if you want to send it to Excel, Word, etc., or
normal, that gives you the 1 to 100 pages or so. Once it is on screen, you
can print, choose your printer (including pdf), but no choice to print a text
file or any other format.

I normally want to see the report before sending "x" pages to the printer in
the other room, as sometimes it isn't exactly what I want, or sometimes it
doesn't grab the date ranges I select, and generates 120 pages instead of 3.
It also can take up to 5 minutes to generate the report, so looking at it and
then regenerating it again to excel (where i normally want it in the end) is
a slow option both for me and tying upthe server.

Is there a program or option available to install to allow this.

OK, how about using the generic text printer and have it output to a file
instead of a printer? This file would be suitable for Notepad. You could
also print to PDF and use Acrobat to proof it.

Hal
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"widman" <widman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have a program that generates reports. Before sending them to the
screen
> it gives an option to choose if you want to send it to Excel, Word, etc.,
or
> normal, that gives you the 1 to 100 pages or so. Once it is on screen,
you
> can print, choose your printer (including pdf), but no choice to print a
text
> file or any other format.
>
> I normally want to see the report before sending "x" pages to the printer
in
> the other room, as sometimes it isn't exactly what I want, or sometimes it
> doesn't grab the date ranges I select, and generates 120 pages instead of
3.
> It also can take up to 5 minutes to generate the report, so looking at it
and
> then regenerating it again to excel (where i normally want it in the end)
is
> a slow option both for me and tying upthe server.
>
> Is there a program or option available to install to allow this.