I'm not sure how you could strip out characters, but I'll bet there is a way.
Bill On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Bill Downall <[email protected] > wrote: > John, > > Can you print a report to an RTF file? MS Word could read that file. > > PRINT report WHERE ... OPTION RTF |FILENAME myfile.RTF > | > > > On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:11 PM, John Docherty <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Bill,**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Thanks for your suggestion. I tried this but ended up with a lot of >> formatting characters plus the text. Ay ideas as to how I can just get >> the text, even if I lose the formatting ? **** >> >> ** ** >> >> Regards,**** >> >> **** >> >> John Docherty**** >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Bill >> Downall >> *Sent:* Thursday, 4 April 2013 1:39 a.m. >> *To:* RBASE-L Mailing List >> *Subject:* [RBASE-L] - Re: Exporting VARCHAR fields containing formatted >> text**** >> >> ** ** >> >> John,**** >> >> ** ** >> >> One thing you can do is SELECT varcharcol INTO varcharvar FROM table >> WHERE ..., and then WRITE .vvarcharvar to a file named with a .DOC >> extension. **** >> >> ** ** >> >> Bill**** >> >> ** ** >> >> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:09 PM, John Docherty <[email protected]> >> wrote:**** >> >> I need to export data in a VARCHAR column, containing formatted text, to a >> WORD document. To date my attempts have been unsuccessful. If anyone can >> let >> me know how to do this that would be much appreciated. (9.5_64) >> >> Thank you. >> >> Regards, >> >> John Docherty >> ** >> ****** >> >> ** ** >> > >
