Have any of you successfully exported Filemaker data into Word format or
possibly even Rich Text Format? We've tried a few examples using XML / XSLT,
but unfortunately it seems almost impossible to work out how to retain
formatted text and return characters / paragraph structures, etc.

Any help out there on successfully creating fully formatted, beautifully
crafted Word documents complete with charts, etc exported from container
fields?

Have you checked out EZxslt (at 
http://www.chapsoft.com/ezxslt/index.html)?  It may help with formatting 
your XML documents from FileMaker.

I often use RTF for moving data into Word.  Unless you know RTF off the 
top of your head, I often start by creating a document in Word with all 
my desired formatting, and then save it as an RTF document.  From there, 
you have a coding template to put into FileMaker.  To do so, you will 
need to loop through each record and write the desired field values and 
RTF formatting to a global field.  Once you have your full document in a 
global (warning: 64,000 character limit), you need to get your found set 
down to one record (three script steps: show all records, omit record, 
show omitted) and then export your global field as a tab-delimited file 
with a .doc extension for easy opening in Word.

- wrote:

> Have any of you successfully exported Filemaker data into Word format or
> possibly even Rich Text Format? We've tried a few examples using XML / XSLT,
> but unfortunately it seems almost impossible to work out how to retain
> formatted text and return characters / paragraph structures, etc.
> 
> Any help out there on successfully creating fully formatted, beautifully
> crafted Word documents complete with charts, etc exported from container
> fields?

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Howard Schlossberg              (818) 883-2846
FM Pro Solutions       Los Angeles, California
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