How to print reports in columns

[pizzaddict]

I'm new to the FOF2007 and am curious how to print reports so that they come out in a column format. I'm trying to print my roster, but nothing is lined up so it's hard to read.

[CleBrownsfan]

Originally Posted by pizzaddict

I'm new to the FOF2007 and am curious how to print reports so that they come out in a column format. I'm trying to print my roster, but nothing is lined up so it's hard to read.

Anybody have an answer for this... I'm having the same issue and it would be a pain in the arse to line up these columns myself to print them.

~thanks

[jdavidbakr]

The most effective way would probably to run an extractor report and open it up in Excel or Open Office, although you'd have a ton more columns than you need but you can easily enough delete those columns. Just printing the page has never worked for me either, he has no formatting in there at all. (It's probably designed to be printed on a dot matrix with fixed column width. Maybe you can find yourself a dot matrix printer?

[CleBrownsfan]

Originally Posted by jdavidbakr

The most effective way would probably to run an extractor report and open it up in Excel or Open Office, although you'd have a ton more columns than you need but you can easily enough delete those columns. Just printing the page has never worked for me either, he has no formatting in there at all. (It's probably designed to be printed on a dot matrix with fixed column width. Maybe you can find yourself a dot matrix printer?

Are you talking about the FOF2k7 Utility extractor?

[jdavidbakr]

Originally Posted by CleBrownsfan

Are you talking about the FOF2k7 Utility extractor?

Yes, sorry, I use it so much I forget it may need introduction

[CleBrownsfan]

I have never used the FOF2k7 Utility but I'm liking it. One thing I can't figure out is where the extractor reports saves to. I can't seem to locate the reports to open it... any thoughts?

[jdavidbakr]

My Documents\StelmackSoft\UtilitySuite

[QuikSand]

Originally Posted by pizzaddict

I'm new to the FOF2007 and am curious how to print reports so that they come out in a column format. I'm trying to print my roster, but nothing is lined up so it's hard to read.

I confess it's been a while since I have printed one out, but if I print to a Generic/text printer and open the file in something like Notepad (with even spaced font) it seems to work fine. Maybe that's an easier approach.

[CleBrownsfan]

Originally Posted by jdavidbakr

My Documents\StelmackSoft\UtilitySuite

Okay got it - thanks! When I want to print individual stats for a team I'm extracting it but only a ratings report is showing up - no stats.

~why can't I just hit print and everything lines up *sigh*

[gstelmack]

Originally Posted by QuikSand

I confess it's been a while since I have printed one out, but if I print to a Generic/text printer and open the file in something like Notepad (with even spaced font) it seems to work fine. Maybe that's an easier approach.

That generally works, although some have reported in the past occasionally having issues with that.

The other problem is that in some reports, long data in one column flows into the next, making it difficult to read, and difficult to open in something like Excel.

[gstelmack]

Originally Posted by CleBrownsfan

Okay got it - thanks! When I want to print individual stats for a team I'm extracting it but only a ratings report is showing up - no stats.

Interrogator dumps about everything into CSVs, including stats. This is what several MP leagues use for creating the databases they run reports off of.

If you want season-summarized stat data, you can run Extender and it generates a bunch of CSVs it uses for scoring, but they include all the appropriate stats.

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by pizzaddict

I'm new to the FOF2007 and am curious how to print reports so that they come out in a column format. I'm trying to print my roster, but nothing is lined up so it's hard to read.

For this particular report, I just print to a text file and open it up using Excel or Open Office, and everything lines up perfectly.