Nico,

Perhaps you could take a look at WPTools. It's a Delphi richedit component but it's by far more powerful than any other richedit component I've seen. In most cases it's overkill but in your situation it may be worth a closer look. You can insert tables etc. Another option with WPTools is the WPReporter (sold separately) which is more or less a simple report writer for RTF. The thing is so powerful you can even have formulas and do calculations in the tables. It does cost I guess, but it depends how much time you are going to save by doing what you are trying to do some other way. You can download a trial at www.wptools.de

HTH
Costas

Nico Callewaert wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> I have a big problem. It's not really a IBO related question, but I don't know where else to ask. My user wants a apllication to store "text", but not just text, formatted text, like MS-Word, I've made something like that with a TIB_RichEdit component, he had the possibilities to set text bold, italic, underline, colors and things like that. but now he's asking to insert tables like in Word, and that the tables automatically resizes when text is getting too long, all in that TIB_RichEdit field. The whole thing is used to make quotations, where we have a table with the header, and a detail table where the text is saved. I just answered that a office application isn't the same as a database application. Just like you can't use Excel to make a database with. But of course he's expecting a solution, what should I do ?
>
> Please help me, I'm drowning :-))))
>
> Thanks,
> Nico Callewaert
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