[Bill Jones]

?I am looking to speed up the exporting of SmartList results to Word.  We found the Dex.ini setting of SmartlistEnhancedExcelReport=TRUE years ago and it did speed up the exporting to Excel.  Can any confirm if there is a SmartlistEnhancedWordReport=TRUE setting or something similar.  We have a basic export of the out of the account account listing to Excel in under a minute but to word that export is about 5 minutes.

Thank you.

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Bill Jones
Systems Engineer, Financial Systems
Universal Service Administrative Company
Washington DC
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[Ryan Galang]

Hi Bill,

The most comprehensive post I’ve seen on this are from :
The first one is the “more recent” article:

https://community.dynamics.com/gp/b/gplesliev/archive/2017/11/07/updated-dex-ini-switch-document-uploaded

https://community.dynamics.com/gp/b/gplesliev/archive/2014/02/20/dex-ini-switches-my-complete-list

I didn’t see the one you were looking for though… 🙁

?

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Ryan Galang
BTP Technologies LLC
Chantilly VA
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[Jeff Pfershy]

Hi Bill,

The problem with exporting from a SmartList favorite to Word instead of Excel is that Word has to draw a table and insert each value field by field. All that overhead is expensive, and you see (rather slowly) the result of that overhead expense.

But if we take a step back and ask why a list is being sent to Word to begin with, maybe we can come up with a better solution.

For example, if it’s for a mailmerge document in Word, I would still send the SmartList data to Excel, then use the Excel file for my mailmerge datasource.

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Jeff Pfershy
Sr Business Analyst
BluJay Solutions Inc
Holland MI
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[Bruce Strom]

Or first go to Excel, and then as a second step, go from Excel to Word.

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Bruce Strom
Programmer Analyst
Associated Grocers of Florida / Supervalu
Sunrise FL
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