ACC1x: OutputAs Library Utility Available on MSL

Article ID: Q113500
Creation Date: 06-APR-1994
Revision Date: 24-APR-1997

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Access versions 1.0, 1.1

SUMMARY

This article describes the OutputAs library utility that is available on the Microsoft Software Library (MSL). You can use this library utility to output a report to a file in Microsoft Access.

You can use the OutputAs library utility to save a report to a file, instead of printing or previewing it. This utility adds a Save Report As command to your copy of Microsoft Access, so you can output your report in any of the following formats:

BIFF (Binary file format, used by Microsoft Excel version 3.0 and later)
RTF (Rich-text format, a Microsoft standard document interchange format)

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange format, a text-only format)

 ~ OUTPUT.EXE (size: 188671 bytes) 
              is available for download from the Microsoft Software
   Library.

For more information about downloading files from the Microsoft Software Library, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q119591
   TITLE     : How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services

Keywords : kbfile Softlib
Version : 1.0 1.1
Platform : WINDOWS
Hardware : X86
Issue type : kbinfo

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