Re: Best way to get HTML Tables to MS Word tables

2018-02-27 Thread Jim Labos - infobase via 4D_Tech
Since I am only interested in generating tables in word I have no need for something elaborate enough to generate everything. So yes Dan what I did is I started to look at table sin Excel and copy pasting to Word. Finally I created a sample of the simplest table we need to generate and then saved

Re: Best way to get HTML Tables to MS Word tables

2018-02-26 Thread Dan Gallagher via 4D_Tech
Jim, I don't know of anything that can easily convert HTML to office xml besides. I have only generated ms word tables directly from 4D. My best suggestion is to create a table with word with dummy data then go into document.xml from the .docx file and look at the xml from there. You can look

RE: Best way to get HTML Tables to MS Word tables

2018-02-26 Thread Michael McCall via 4D_Tech
Like Jim, I've never used PHP but would be curious to give this solution for MS Word a try. Any chance anyone who might have tried it could provide some simple instructions on how to get started? I don't know whether everything needed is already included in 4D - we use v16 r4 currently - or if a

Re: Best way to get HTML Tables to MS Word tables

2018-02-23 Thread Jim Labos - infobase via 4D_Tech
Thanks Dani, I'll check that out. I have never used or needed to use PHP so I hope that I can find another solution. If it's the only game in town then I guess I'll have to dive in. I'm thinking XML, as I am more familiar with that and MS Word seems to support it, but again I would feel better if

Re: Best way to get HTML Tables to MS Word tables

2018-02-23 Thread Dani Beaubien via 4D_Tech
Hi Jim, I suggest you take a look at phpWord (https://phpword.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ). It works well, quite quick and you can output in a number of word formats. Dani > On Feb 23, 2018, at 3:04 PM, Jim Labos - infobase via 4D_Tech > <4d_tech@li