Posted by Eric Layman on 03/03/07 16:25

"Steve" <no.one@example.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Eric Layman" <namyalcire[at no spam]gmail.com> wrote in message
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> | Hi,
> |
> | I have fields from textareas.
> |
> | With a click of a button, php is able to grab these fields and by using
> | header(), convert the output to Ms Word doc.
> |
> | But the outcome of the word doc doesn't wrap the text in textarea.
> |
> | the result is one very veyr long string of text which stretch MS word
> all
> | the way
> |
> | how to over come that?
> |
> | I've tried different wrap attributes.
>
> hard to say without looking at the code you're using.
>
> are you on a windows server? are you creating a com ms word doc object and
> putting the text in that way? or, are you creating a standard text file
> and
> calling it word (i.e. someDoc.doc or setting the header for the browser as
> an ms word doc)?
>
> if on windows, i'd go the com route and remove any soft-returns that may
> be
> in the text. then, i'd use word's om to format the boundries, color, font,
> etc. of the text as it should appear in word. what is word's om? the
> easiest
> way to get what you need is to open word, record a macro, type and format
> some text the way you want it to look as if it were really your output,
> stop
> recording your macro. from there, just edit the macro. you will see the
> source code and see all the methods/properties you will need to know and
> work with. problem solved.
>
> if not on windows, i'd get a good conversion tool, and even think about
> using xml/xslt as an abstraction layer. that combination will allow you
> not
> only to convert to word but to pdf and others as well.
>
> anyway, hth.
>
>

Thanks Steve.

Let me explain further:

I have a form which has textareas and allows user inputs which saves to
mysql database.

The administrator is able to view these textarea inputs by clicking a
button. This button will pull out these information and generate a word
document.

Problem is that when word documents are generated, the text in these word
documents are stretchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh till the very extreme
right end.

These texts in the word doc are the data that is keyed in by end users via
the textarea.

It seems that the generated word doc is not able to capture the linebreaks
within the textarea.

Pls advise.

Thanks



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