Top Post Re: Creating a Spreadsheet

Harold haroldef at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jun 14 07:35:53 PDT 2010


Hi,

Nancy, you are unbelievable.  Thank you.

Harold

On 6/11/2010 2:40 PM, Nancy Palmquist wrote:
> Harold,
>
> If your version of filepro is recent (5.x) you can do this:
>
> declare filename                 'you can  add edit and length if you want
> filename="c:/maclbs/name"{doedit(@td,"ymd",6"){".csv"
> filename=xlate(filename,"/",chr("92") )                         'flips
> the slashes
> export word merge=(filename{"")
>
> Works great.
>
> I put today's date in the name of the file.
>
> Nancy
>
> On 6/11/2010 3:27 PM, Harold wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Hey John, I am still going.  Hope you are doing well.
>>
>> Using Filepro, I can I create a spreadsheet and have it placed into a directory, but
>> how can the name of the file be automatically changed each time the file is created.
>>     I would even like to have the date as part of the name.  For example
>> "LBS07/20/10.CVS."  Everything is working except the name change.  I am using:
>>
>> Then: export Word merge=C:\MACLBS\NAME.csv
>>
>> Harold
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