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Greg
I have a database whose only purpose is to produce a text
file of some 10,000+ lines of tedious programming code. My
initial plan has been to prepare a huge report, then
export that report to a text file. And when I tested it
this morning with test data, it worked -- *sort of*.
The problem is that, in the exported text file, there is
an unacceptable variation in number of blank lines between
report elements. This is because not all of those elements
have the same height, yet they must all be put into a text
box whose height is fixed.
This is *not* a perfectionistic quibble. Eventually, when
I start adding real data, there could be anywhere from 1
to 100 or more blank lines between report elements. Sure,
I could use Notepad's "Find/Replace" to fix this, but I
wanted the whole text-file-generation process to be simple
and easy, the kind of thing I could repeat multiple times
a day without a hassle.
I can think of three possible solutions, but haven't yet
discovered whether any of them are possible.
1. Is there any way to make a report's text boxes have a
dynamically varying height depending on their contents?
2. Is there any way to have a report whose elements are
not contained in text boxes?
3. Is there any way to do all this that's better than
using a report?
Thank you very much if you can help me with this.
Greg
file of some 10,000+ lines of tedious programming code. My
initial plan has been to prepare a huge report, then
export that report to a text file. And when I tested it
this morning with test data, it worked -- *sort of*.
The problem is that, in the exported text file, there is
an unacceptable variation in number of blank lines between
report elements. This is because not all of those elements
have the same height, yet they must all be put into a text
box whose height is fixed.
This is *not* a perfectionistic quibble. Eventually, when
I start adding real data, there could be anywhere from 1
to 100 or more blank lines between report elements. Sure,
I could use Notepad's "Find/Replace" to fix this, but I
wanted the whole text-file-generation process to be simple
and easy, the kind of thing I could repeat multiple times
a day without a hassle.
I can think of three possible solutions, but haven't yet
discovered whether any of them are possible.
1. Is there any way to make a report's text boxes have a
dynamically varying height depending on their contents?
2. Is there any way to have a report whose elements are
not contained in text boxes?
3. Is there any way to do all this that's better than
using a report?
Thank you very much if you can help me with this.
Greg
