1099-MISC Continued...

Hello out there in BIP world! I have been getting comments about how I created my 1099-MISC .rtf files, so I thought I should write a follow-up to my last post.

I started off trying to download the .pdf files from the IRS website, but if you haven't noticed already, you have to write Adobe code in the .pdf docs to get the looping you want. So, that didn't work out too well for me seeing that I don't know how to code in Adobe.

The most effective way that I found to get the forms how we needed them, was to create a .rtf template to use. I was only required to create a format that we could print and mail out, which eliminated having to worry about business-2-business field compatibility and using the .pdf to send back to the IRS electronically. Basically, I just used the BIP desktop tool to re-create the IRS forms. I created 2 tables per page (one for Copy B and one for Copy 2) and then entered my for-each loops and tags accordingly.

You can download 2 sample files here :
Copy B/2
Copy C

These templates need some clean-up work with removing the table lines where they aren't needed (use the IRS downloaded forms as your guide). But you will get the overall idea on what you should use for this solution. If you have any additional questions, just post a comment and I'll get back to you.