From: Bruce Whittaker (bwhittak@ENERGY.COM.AU)
Date: Tue Nov 11 2003 - 23:18:05 EST
Hmmm,
I've go a cheat that you can use if you're basically dealing with a
template.
Create your template in word and set the fonts layout as you wish. Where
you want text replaced with your data, insert a special tag (ie [MYDATA]
).
Write a script to parse your data and populate the template - replacing
the tags with your data.
UUencode the result and email it off and it can be opened as a formatted
word document at the other end.
This can be a really fussy task - especially if you are playing with
variable length data. So first make sure it's worth it. In my case the
data needed to be displayed in landscape so that it wouldn't look like
rubbish and it was going to users who wouldn't be knowledgeable enough to
import different formats into word.
I hope this helps !.
Bruce Whittaker,
CASS Support,
Extension 34193
External (02) 9269 4193.
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Subject: word file creation
Hello all,
I realize that this isn't an AIX question, but I was
hoping that maybe one of you scripters out there could
help me out. I've got a script that's creating a flat
file with some data in it. I've found that if I put a
.doc on the end of the file, when I transfer it to my
desktop, MS Word will open it. Does anyone know how I
can preformat the file so that certain text will be
bolded or underlined? I'm not sure how to even start
on this.
Thanks!
-Stephen Spalding
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