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The article describes the basics of how to set up PowerBuilder to interface with Microsoft Word and output a set of data from a datawindow.

This is the third part in a series dealing with visual font components. The article describes how to build the visual components that use the font object to allow your users to pick a font.

This is the first installment of a four-part series about creating a drop-down list of fonts that displays each font name in the actual font, as well as building a full font selector window as seen in many Windows applications.

This article will explain how to get the Microsoft Browser control working from a PowerBuilder window.

The article demonstrates how to take a snapshot of a window in your PowerBuilder application and paste it into Microsoft Word. In order to achieve this, you will require some help from the Windows API and some use of OLE automation.

The article describes the basics of how to set up PowerBuilder to automatically grab data from Word documents and put it in DataWindow.

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This article shows how to export data to excel using OLE automation. Although PowerBuilder provides a save as to Excel file format, this function has several limitations, such as including all columns even if the user does not want them and not including

This is the fourth in a four-part series dealing with a pair of visual font components. It describes how to build a full font-selector visual control like the ones in Word, PowerBuilder, etc.

The article tells how to establish a mail session and receive email using MAPI in PowerBuilder.

The article tells how to establish a mail session and send email programmatically using MAPI in PowerBuilder.

This is the second of a four-part series dealing with visual font components. You'll learn how to create a full list of fonts, know their TrueType indicator, and know whether they have a boldface, italic, or bold-italic version.