How can I copy a formatted table from word / excel to a richtext control in VB6

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I have a legacy app that I am supporting (VB6).
I am using the standard Richtext control from VB6.

When copying and pasting from Word / Excel on my two Dev machines, it works perfectly - all formatting comes across 100%

When I do the exact same on user's machines, the text pastes, but a lot of the formatting is lost. i.e the table spacing is kept, but the actual table (borders etc) is lost

What I have tried:

I have checked and both Dev and user and both have the same richtx32.ocx registered. My understanding is that this ocx file is the component controlling the richtext control.

I have even uninstalled and reinstalled, but still to no avail

Posted 2-Nov-17 19:55pm

craigba

Updated 4-Dec-17 23:26pm

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Richard Deeming 6-Nov-17 15:29pm

Are they running exactly the same version of Word, with exactly the same settings?

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craigba · Answer 1 · 2017-12-04T23:26:00

Okay, so I eventually got this right...

I found that there was an additional file (riched32.dll) on the not working machines' folder. (That wasn't on the working machines. If I deleted this file, the installer automatically added them).

What I landed up doing was creating a new installer with the dll files required. Once I had installed from this installer I had to register the files and it worked!!!

One of those weird ones...