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[arcray]

I have a Word document which is just about falling over, because it is so complicated and has lots of MERGEFIELD, INCLUDETEXTS, IF, AND and OR statements in linked in to a system DSN ODBC text driver whose text file is produced by a data form written in VDS.

I previously tried DDE, but this was very slow. ODBC (provided by VDSDB.DLL) is much, much quicker. But the document is now so complex that I need to find another way of producing it.

I have looked at the STRING.DLL and VDSOBJ.DLLs and they seem promising, but the Rich Text Format (RTF) produced by Word is very laden with loads of unnecessary code.

My question is:-

Is there a simple RTF editor out there that can produce much cleaner code? Code that I can use as a template for a RICHEDIT window and fields that I can populate with STRING.DLL replacing Field place holders with actual data.

Recommendations anyone?

Thanks in advance!

[jules]

Wordpad?

[FreezingFire]

The VDSOBJ will allow you to produce RTF code.