Microsoft Dynamics NAV Style Sheet Tool v1.1

The Style Sheet feature in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 has been enhanced with a new tool that allows you to easily and without programming knowledge create and modify style sheets in Microsoft® Office Word.

The release of Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 introduced the option to export any form (apart from matrix forms) from Microsoft Dynamics NAV to Microsoft Office® Word and Excel®. By simply clicking a button, Microsoft Dynamics NAV will generate an XML document that works in conjunction with an XML style sheet that passes the requested information to either Word or Excel.

Seven style sheets are included in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. You can read about these in the White Paper ‘Creating XML Style Sheets for Data Export from Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0’. However, if you want to create more style sheets or modify an existing one, you need to have knowledge of XML and C/AL programming in order to add the relevant data elements.

To simplify this process, a style sheet tool has been created that does not require programming knowledge. The first version of this tool will support the export of data to Word, and this means that the only skill required to create additional style sheets is some end-user knowledge of Word.

The Microsoft Dynamics NAV Stylesheet Tool supports integration to Microsoft Word 2003 and Microsoft Word 2007.
It consists of a fob file and a user guide.

Note: To be able to use the tool, a license update is required.


The following issues have been corrected in version 1.1:

- If a Header or Footer was specified, the Style Sheet Tool ignored them.
- If a long option strings was defined for a field, the user received a text overflow error message.
- When changing local languages, the Style Sheet tool only looked for a '.' instead of the local language decimal separator.
- When you create the mail merge document, the Style Sheet Tool would ignore the landscape orientation.
- If you have created a table relationship and the value being looked up doesn't exist, the style sheet won't load. If you close down NAV then you would get an error indicating that the value couldn't be found.
- When using page numbers (page x of y), then all pages come out as page 1 of 1