Re: prob with ACE output and WORD

<johnson@hqcso.attmail.com> wrote: > >I am looking for suggestions on how to avoid a problem I have with the output >of my ACE reports having unaligned columns when saving to Microsoft Word. > >The columns are set in ACE using statements like: > print column 5, fld1, column 20 fld2 using "####", ... > >When saving into Word, the columns lose their allignment. Has anyone had, >worked around this problem? ACE formats output using spaces between columns. This works great on terminals and printers using fixed width characters, but is probably breaking in Word because you're using a font where every letter is a different size. option 1: use a fixed space font like courier. option 2: you can try putting a tab character (ASCII 9) between columns instead of column specifiers. This will only work if fields don't vary too much in width. If they do, you'll have to do some cleanup in Word before sending it out. Hope this helps Mark Rafn dagon@halcyon.com