Access to Word form

[quixote]

Not sure but maybe I should have posted this in Word
forum, anyhow: I have a form in Access that has a button.
When the user clicks the button a Word form is populated
and emailed to an individual. Everything works great
except the users here don't like the Word Text Form fields
because they are grey. I can't find a way to change the
background color of a Text Form field in Word. Anyone know
how?

Thanks

 

[Albert D. Kallal]

If you execute the word merge, then all the merge fields in word should be
gone.

You can't email a word document with existing merge fields, as then the
recipient will NOT be able to see the results (because, that person does not
have ms-access and that particular record on THEIR computer).

I have a working sample of a word merge from ms-access that has no merge
fields left after the merge occurs.

Try my word merge example here:
http://www.attcanada.net/~kallal.msn/msaccess/msaccess.html

(it is ready to go, and has sample data).

My example don't have provisions for email..but I suppose you could add that
feature...

Try my example, and do a simply merge to a test letter. You should not see
the "greay" fields

 

[Graham Mandeno]

You're right - a Word newsgroup would be a more appropriate place for this
question, but AFAIK there is no way to change the grey background for input
fields in a protected Word document.