Exporting Reports to RTF format causes unexpected truncation

[Stephan Golux]

Hello.

I am using an access 97 application that exports a report to RTF format,
which is subsequently emailed to various people.

The main informational field in the report is a free form memo field
which can be very short or very long.

When the report is created in access, the formatting is fine. If you
print it, is fine. No problem.

When exported to RTF (and for that matter TXT or HTML formats) it
appears that the software will sometimes truncate the data. It seems as
if the exporting software wants to let the new format dictate word
wrapping and font leading, which and it isn't always the same as that in
the initial report. If the field in the RTF file would be a line longer
than the field in the underlying report, the last line gets cut off.

This happens consistently.

So, for example:

INITIAL FIELD AS SHOWN IN ACCESS REPORT:

When, in the course of human events,
it becomes necessary for one people
to dissolve the political bands which
have connected them with another

EXPORTED TO RTF:

When, in the course of human events,
it becomes necessary for one people
to dissolve the political bands
which have connected them with

Since, in the RTF version the word "another" wants to be on the next
line, it just gets cut off.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

-s