Exporting Access report to Word loses formatting

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Aileen H

OK, I tried snapshot - and my email recipient can't open it.
How do I make a .pdf file of it
 
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Albert D. Kallal

You can purchase a commercial PDF creator (adobe has one). This kind of
application actually installs printer driver, and then any application
simply prints to the PDF printer..and it then creates a PDF file for you.

You can also grab a nice free one here:
It is absolutely Free,

And free means no watermarks, no nag screens, no annoying Popup
advertisements, no time limits etc.

It is also very fast, and works very well. I highly recommend it.

http://www.acrosoftware.com/products/cutepdf/Printer.asp

There is also a open source one here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
 
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Aileen Hewat

Sergey Poberezovskiy said:
I just print to PDFWriter printer driver...

Thanks, but I don't know where to find PDFwriter printer driver. However, I have downloaded the file Cutepdf as Albert suggested.
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But I have since realised that the problem then is that my recipient will
not be able to fill the form in on screen and return it to me
 
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Aileen Hewat

Thanks, Albert, I have downloadedit, but have since realised that my
recipient will not be able to fill in the form and return it to me. Any
other ideas?
 
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Aileen Hewat

Alex Ivanov said:
Create your report in Word.
http://www.aleksoft.net/samples/Access_Word.zip

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Alex.





Alex, What use is that? I want to send out a form with some information from my database filled in; I want the recipient to fill in the rest and return it to me. I will still have to trransfer that data into my database, but it will be easier for them, and I am more likely to get responses
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Tom Wickerath

Aileen,

Create a document template that includes bookmarks. You can then use VBA code from Access to read
the data in the bookmarks when your users return the filled out Word documents. Here is a link
that shows you the "how-to":

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnimo01/html/imo1200.asp

I have a copy of the sample files which I can send to you, if you send me a private e-mail
message with a valid return e-mail address.


Tom
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Alex, What use is that? I want to send out a form with some information from my database filled
in; I want the recipient to fill in the rest and return it to me. I will still have to trransfer
that data into my database, but it will be easier for them, and I am more likely to get responses
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:

Create your report in Word.
http://www.aleksoft.net/samples/Access_Word.zip
 
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Arvin Meyer

A sample of the code for a document template using bookmarks is available
at:

http://www.datastrat.com/Code/WordMerge.txt

In fact it is a letter that goes out to the recipient, but you can send data
to any bookmark in work. If it were me doing this, I'd build the report in
Excel instead. Individual cells in Excel can be addressed both incoming and
out going, so if they email the Excel workbook back to you, you can add the
data to your database without having to re-enter it. Here's some specific
code that might help:

http://www.mvps.org/access/modules/mdl0035.htm

If you go to the Access Web < www.mvps.org/access > and search on Excel,
you'll find lots of useful code.
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Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Microsoft Access
Free Access downloads:
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.mvps.org/access

from my database filled in; I want the recipient to fill in the rest and
return it to me. I will still have to trransfer that data into my database,
but it will be easier for them, and I am more likely to get responses
 
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