Capturing the text from DoCmd.Output in MS Access
Hi all,
I hope someone can help me with this one. We are trying to get rid of extra line feeds that are appearing in the text output of our microsoft access reports. The command being used is:
DoCmd.OutputTo acOutputReport, reportName, acFormatTXT, printFileName, False, "", varEncoding
We've tried many methods to rid ourselves of the extra line spaces such as setting the Can Grow, Can Shrink options to TRUE for Report Sections and for text fields. And we've tried widening the fields to make the vertical space smaller but so far, no luck.
We've also considered saving the output to the hard drive as a text file and then just running a filter to eliminate the extra line feeds but that would add precious seconds to each transaction of thousands and so therefore this is unacceptable.
So far it looks like we have to find a solution within the actual report or within the application.
Has anyone else had some success with this kind of issue?
Thank you
Ted
I hope someone can help me with this one. We are trying to get rid of extra line feeds that are appearing in the text output of our microsoft access reports. The command being used is:
DoCmd.OutputTo acOutputReport, reportName, acFormatTXT, printFileName, False, "", varEncoding
We've tried many methods to rid ourselves of the extra line spaces such as setting the Can Grow, Can Shrink options to TRUE for Report Sections and for text fields. And we've tried widening the fields to make the vertical space smaller but so far, no luck.
We've also considered saving the output to the hard drive as a text file and then just running a filter to eliminate the extra line feeds but that would add precious seconds to each transaction of thousands and so therefore this is unacceptable.
So far it looks like we have to find a solution within the actual report or within the application.
Has anyone else had some success with this kind of issue?
Thank you
Ted
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Guys, thanks for your help. rheitzman and boag2000 both provided solid approaches to resolving the problem. rheitzman your last response about writing directly to a text file though it wasn't utilized because of server timing considerations offered a possible new way of resolving things in the future.
Regards,
Ted
Regards,
Ted
You could output directly to a Text file, if that would be more suitable. Access/VBA provides quite a few methods to write directly to Text files, if that would suit you better.