That is the sort of answer that makes this list so great! Thanks, Bill. I guess it's an obvious solution but using a table never occurred to me - I can see all sorts of possibilities now - and nowhere near as much work as I was looking at. Great.
Regards, Alastair. ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 6:45 PM Subject: Re: Copying sections between reports > I have placed header text into rows of a table (paramtbl) and done > look-ups in the report. It sure was easier to change the company > address when they moved! > > Bill Cook > Kent WA USA > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alastair Burr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "R:Base ListServer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 8:29 AM > Subject: Copying sections between reports > > > > Hello all, > > > > Does anybody have an _easy_ method of copying part or all of text > field > > sections between reports? > > > > I know that I can copy and paste the text and create field by field > with two > > copies of R:Base open or, perhaps, run two reports where the overall > report > > footer, for example, comprises the second report. I could also > create a > > template report and then add in the various columns & variables - if > I > > didn't already have the reports. > > > > What I have is a report header and a report footer that is common in > most > > respects to a number of reports from various tables - parts of the > text > > change but comparatively very little is different. It would be much > easier > > to paste the sections into the reports then make a few amendments > rather > > that create each section a few dozen times. > > > > Any suggestions gratefully accepted, > > Regards, Alastair. > > > > > > ---------------------------------- > > A D B Burr, > > St. Albans, UK. > > ---------------------------------- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------------------------------- > > > > ================================================ > > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > > ================================================ > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > > ================================================ > > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ > > ================================================ > TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: > Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l > ================================================ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l > ================================================ > TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: > http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
