Flex programming language question and books for a newbie?

[h_c]

I am a complete newbie to Flex. There was a Flex developer in our project who left so that work has come to me. My background is mainly C,C++ with some HTML, JavaScript.

I have a couple of questions and would appreciate if someone could respond to them.

I am going through the Adobe Videotrainings at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/ to get acquainted with Flex. In addition, I am using books like
Wiley Adobe Flex 3.0 for Dummies
getting_started_with_Flex3 available at Adobe Video training link
APress Foundation ActionScript 3.0 with Flash CS3 and Flex

Any other books which are recommended?

The Flex application I am expected to maintain and enhance prints out reports in PDF format which we need to be in MS-Word format. I have looked at the source for the application and see the below lines in one file

<cfdocument format="pdf" filename="#report_filename_format#" orientation="landscape"
pagetype="legal">

Is there a way to do it in the program so that the output is a MS-Word document? I understand the format attribute can take only "PDF" or "flashpaper" as values as per http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=ColdFusion_Documentation&file=00000236.htm.

Can someone please clarify?

Thanks a lot.

[PeterDoyle]

Hi,

A good book for beginners is the Training from the Source book for Flex, which I think is Adobe.

It goes through a number of parts of building an app and is pretty good.

I don't think you can output from Flex into word and the code you have supplied is actually Coldfusion server side code which generates either pdf or flashpaper as you say. There isn't an easy way of outputting to word through flex or coldfusion though there may be some work arounds that generate rtf or txt files rather than word docs.

Hope this helps.

Peter