Output to MS Word - Please Help

[MostlyH2O]

Hi Folks,

I am trying to output the content of my ASP page to an MS Word Document with
a specific page size (8.5x11) and margins (.25" all around). I have used
the Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-word" - along with the
Response.AddHeader to force the download without any trouble.

However, because this method outputs html, I can't get it to format the
margins in the resulting word document. While I can use the "style" tags to
fake a margin by entering a negative number (style=Margin-Left : -.75in), it
doesn't really change the documents margins that need to be set for
printing. and I can't set the page size either.

So, I tried digging in to the "FileSystemObject" to create an RTF file.
This sort-of works, but fills the server up with files that need to be
manually deleted. Also, the browser has a problem refreshing when viewing
an rtf file that has been overwritten with new information.

Is there any better solution for generating on-the-fly Word Documents which
require detailed formatting of margins and page size?

Thanks very much,
Jack Coletti
St. Petersburg, FL

[Tom Kaminski [MVP]]

"MostlyH2O" <jm*@takeitouthrmp.net> wrote in message
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Hi Folks,

I am trying to output the content of my ASP page to an MS Word Document with a specific page size (8.5x11) and margins (.25" all around). I have used
the Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-word" - along with the
Response.AddHeader to force the download without any trouble.

However, because this method outputs html, I can't get it to format the
margins in the resulting word document. While I can use the "style" tags to fake a margin by entering a negative number (style=Margin-Left : -.75in), it doesn't really change the documents margins that need to be set for
printing. and I can't set the page size either.

So, I tried digging in to the "FileSystemObject" to create an RTF file.
This sort-of works, but fills the server up with files that need to be
manually deleted. Also, the browser has a problem refreshing when viewing
an rtf file that has been overwritten with new information.

Is there any better solution for generating on-the-fly Word Documents which require detailed formatting of margins and page size?

Why not try the Word technique with rtf? The mime-type is just
application/rtf ...

[Tom Kaminski [MVP]]

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"MostlyH2O" <jm*@takeitouthrmp.net> wrote in message
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Hi Folks,

I am trying to output the content of my ASP page to an MS Word Document with

a specific page size (8.5x11) and margins (.25" all around). I have used the Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-word" - along with the
Response.AddHeader to force the download without any trouble.

However, because this method outputs html, I can't get it to format the
margins in the resulting word document. While I can use the "style"

tags to

fake a margin by entering a negative number (style=Margin-Left

: -.75in), it

doesn't really change the documents margins that need to be set for
printing. and I can't set the page size either.

Another approach - "try reverse engineering" the document. Set it up in
Word, then save the file as HTML and check out the resulting style code
that's created. In some tests I did, Word seems to save the print margin
and page size info.

[MostlyH2O]

> Another approach - "try reverse engineering" the document. Set it up in

Word, then save the file as HTML and check out the resulting style code
that's created. In some tests I did, Word seems to save the print margin
and page size info.

Hi Tom,

I ended up combining your 2 suggestions and got it to work. While reverse
engineering the html did set margins in the style, they were not retained in
the print layout view of word . So, I saved my document as an RTF and
opened it in notepad to get the RTF code. Then I pasted it into my asp page
and set the mime type. It works.

Thanks very much for your help. I really appreciate it :-)

Jack