Stuart, I am on Vista SP1 and have had none of your problems. I am using Word 2007 but I am not as sophisticated as you in my requirements as I don't interface Word and R:Base but I have had no problems with R:Base at all. Jay
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stuart Cohen Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 6:16 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - If things are going well.... If things are going well for you while using a Microsoft product, do not worry, you will get over it. Just wait for the next service pack. I have an application with a report which uses several Rich Text fields and a couple of image fields. I output the report into RTF (Microsoft Word) files. Recently, all of a sudden, the files I output from this application looked funky. Most of the components in the file were surrounded by a thin black outline. Of course, this happened after I reconstituted a new hard drive with the latest version of R:Base. Thinking that my problem was the latest update of R:Base, I called John. (Yes R:azzak, I should have known better!) I also sent John an RTF file created by my application. When John opened it, everything looked fine. I decided to take my file to another computer in which Microsoft Office has not been updated in a long time. Everything looked fine. The problem did not seem to be R:Base (DUH!) but rather Microsoft Word 2003 (DUH, DUH!!!). Since I installed Microsoft Office on my new hard drive, it automatically updated to SP3. In Microsoft Word 2003 Version 11.8134.8132 SP2 everything looks good. If I click on any of the components, then right-click on the border that appears, a menu will appear. If I choose "Format Autoshape" a form opens. In the form, under the "Colors and Lines" tab, there is a section called "Line". In this section there is a "Color" option set to "No Line". In Microsoft Word 2003 Version 11.8169.8172 SP3 the components look funky. Most of the components are surrounded by a thin outline. If I click on one of the outlined components, right-click on the border that appears and choose Format Autoshape>Color and Lines, the "Color" option in the "Line" section is set to BLACK. My guess, the rtf file produced by my application does not specify a line color. In SP2, in such a case, the Line Color defaults to "No Line". In SP3 the default Line Color is BLACK. What is the default Line Color in Word 2007? Darn it! I hate Microsoft!!!!! Stuart J. Cohen, Ph.D. Major, Medical Service Corps Research Specialist Walter Reed Army Medical Center National Disaster Medical System Federal Coordinating Center Phone: 202-782-3636 Cell: 301-514-3975 Fax: 202-782-4360 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
