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From the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Blogs: Export lists and cards to Word, Excel, or Outlook; Strange Web Services Behavior; A NAV Wishlist

by Jared Berezin
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How to Send lists and cards to Word, Excel, and Outlook: The NAV Team blog provides step-by-step instructions on how to export a list to Word, Excel, and Outlook:

"It's easy to share Microsoft Dynamics NAV information with colleagues who do not have access to the application. You can export the information from Microsoft Dynamics NAV to Word, Excel, or Outlook, and share the document. The information you export retains the formatting of the Microsoft Dynamics NAV document. From there, you can share the document as is, or make edits to customize it."

Strange Web Services Behavior in NAV: Vjekoslav Babic tackles the issue of setting up a correct primary key numeric value and provides sample code:

"Web services are a fantastic tool in NAV, however, they do not always behave exactly as you would expect them to. There is one particularly annoying behavior, which just after you get used to it starts getting even stranger. So, setting any numeric value during the Create method call on any page web service will have no effect, and the only way to set a value in a numeric field would be through a subsequent call to Update method... If you think this is not a big deal, and you just go and do a Create followed up by an Update, that's precisely what I thought until a couple of days ago. However, the problem is big. Big time big... ...

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Jared Berezin serves as a contributing writer to MSDynamicsWorld.com. With combined interests in technology and science, Jared previously served as a writer for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, drafting scientific narrative reports on the latest advancements in cancer research. Jared has also served as associate marketing specialist for International Data Corporation (IDC), a market research firm. In this position, he planned and executed strategic marketing initiatives for IDC's software and services research programs, and wrote outbound communications to the press, existing clients, and prospects. Jared also has experience working for several local newspapers in eastern Massachusetts. Jared graduated with honors from Colby College with a BA in English and creative writing.
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