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Access: Open specific word docs.
Name: hazzman Date: July 7, 2004 at 07:57:33 Pacific OS: XP, Office CPU/Ram: 1 Ghz, 256 MB
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Simple problem...i hope. In access i have a table having info. about certain reports, which are word doc.'s. I have things like report title, short description, publisher etc etc. All i need to do from access is let the reader access/read this report FROM access. I tried having a OLE object but this just opens Word, when i actually would like the specfic report displayed. Having a link is not good enough, as this is only relevant for my PC, and this database will be shared on the network. Is there a solution to this?? Is it possible to include these word docs into access???
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