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format is intended for use in applications such as fill-out forms where the
space for entering text is reserved as empty text objects.
Almost all of the formatting is retained in this export format. Text objects
cannot, however, be placed outside the left edge of the page. Therefore, if
you have text objects in your report that are placed before the left edge of
the printable area, they will be pushed right. (This is most noticeable in reports
with wide pages.)
Microsoft Word (97-2003) - Editable
The Microsoft Word - Editable format is different from the Microsoft Word
format; it is a page-based format, but not all of the layout and formatting are
preserved in the output. This format converts all of the report object contents
to text lines. Unlike Microsoft Word format, this format does not use text
frames. Text formatting is retained, but attributes such as background color,
fill pattern, and so on may not be retained. All images in your report are
inlined with the textual content and, therefore, the images automatically shift
to accommodate text when the document is edited in Microsoft Word. This
format does not export line and box objects from your report. As well, the
special fields Page Number and Page N of M do not work when exported in
this format.
The Microsoft Word - Editable format has an option to insert page breaks at
the end of each report page. This option may not correspond to the page
breaks created by Microsoft Word; the option is used mainly to separate your
report-page contents.
ODBC
ODBC is a record-based, data-exchange format. When you use this format,
you can export your report data to any ODBC-compliant database.
Record Style - Columns with spaces and Record Style - Columns without
spaces
The record-style formats export report data as text. These formats export
data only from Group and Details areas. The output contains one line per
record in the database (for the report). The record-style formats are used
mainly for data exchange.
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