Office Report Builder 6.0 includes: 

Excel Report Builder 6.0
Word Report Builder 6.0

Office Report Builder is an easy and convenient tool for the creation and customisation of reports which takes advantage of the formatting and presentation capabilities of Microsoft Word and Excel 7.0, 8.0, 2000. The program allows the rapid construction of reports as forms and columnar reports.

General Principles of operation
Two possibilities are available for the choice of datasource for your reports: 

Your own application can generate the data for which the report is to be generated. In this case, the Office Report Builder will construct the report based on the data contained in a temporary table. 
Office Report Builder can make use of SQL through a query editor which is part of the program. This allows the formation of pre-defined reports which are run at a regular interval - e.g. aged debtor &c. 
Here are some of the features of Office Report Builder: 

A GUI style design environment, which allows the user to design their reports visually inside MS Excel / Word. 
On screen preview facilities, also within MS Excel and Word. 
Reports can be saved and then viewed and printed as pure MS Excel or MS Word documents - there is no need to send any additional executables to third parties to whom you wish to send reports. 
The GUI interface means that the learning curve is minimal and that users can be operational with a minimum of delay. 
Office Report Builder has the ability to produce mailing labels and multi-column reports using the capacities of MS Excel and MS Word. 
The reports are created and printed rapidly. 
The page size can automatically be scaled down in order to print several report pages on each sheet of printer paper. 
The use of different fonts, sizes, styles and colours is fully supported, just as it is under MS Excel and MS Word. 
In fact, it is by harnassing the power of MS Excel and MS Word that gives Office Report Builder these abilities. 
Reports may be printed in Portrait or Landscape mode. 
No technical knowledge is needed in order for the user to customize his or her own reports. 
It is possible to call the Excel and Word Report Builder from other programs. 
The combination of the above qualities make the Office Report Builder a tool which should be considered seriously by any organisation with a need to effectively and efficiently disseminate information both between their own staff and to clients, suppliers &c. 

If you do not have a suitable version of the BDE, we recommend that you download it from website:
ftp://ftpc.borland.com/pub/bde/devsupport/updates/bde511en.exe

You may use report builder in command line mode

For example: WORDREP.EXE NAME.REP

Where NAME.REP is the name of the file of parameters created with the help of the program Word Report Builder. 

The report will be generated according to parameters indicated in NAME.REP. 

For Excel Report Builder use
put_rep1.exe name.pr

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