Re: From Access to Word

From: John Nurick (j.mapSoN.nurick_at_dial.pipex.com)
Date: 03/16/04


Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 07:31:23 +0000

Answered in another newsgroup. Please don't post the same message
separately to multiple groups.

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 00:22:41 -0500, "Joan C." <costm@sympatico.ca>
wrote:

>I'm new to programming in Access, even though I've used it for many years.
>So, I do apologize for being so "basic", but is there a simple code I could
>write (an event I'd like to assign to a command box) to have access retrieve
>data from some fields and populate a Word file and display it (open the Word
>doc, with the fields already merged)?
>
>Let's say I have the fields "ID", "First", "Inidate" in a database called
>"Client".
>In my Word file, named "Letters", I'd like to see something like this:
>
>"ID"
>
>Dear "First":
>
>[body of letter], since "inidate"
>
>I'd appreciate any suggestions!
>Thanks!
>MC
>

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John Nurick [Microsoft Access MVP]
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