Word Document as a Report in Access

R

Roger Bell

I have a Word document that I would like to have the contents displayed in a
Report.

When I select the text in the Word Doc. and then copy this into the new
report, the text in the report is much smaller and does not fit to the A4
page size.

Is there a better way of doing this, rather than have to retype the entire
document contents into the Access Report?

Thanks for any help
 
S

Steve

Store the contents of the Word doc in a text or memo foeld in a table and
then include that table in the recordsource of your report.

Steve
 
J

JLatham

A trick I used to use "back in the day" was to scan a document and save as a
graphic file and then use that graphic as the background for a report. Then
position the data fields appropriately over the background where they needed
to appear within the report.
Did this with very complex insurance, government and corporate forms in
several databases.
 
G

gordonjs

Expand the size of the embedded Word document to the size you want it
in the Access report (I use the same size as the original). Right
click on the embedded object and look for the field that describes how
the contents of the object are to be expanded (sorry, I'm at home and
don't have the application here).

Your choices will be "clip," "stretch," and "zoom." Clip keeps the
text the same size as it was originally linked (usually way too
small). Zoom expands the text to fill the new size you specified and
maintains the proportions of the original (my favorite). Stretch is
similar to zoom but it does NOT maintain the original proportions.

I suggest you experiment with the three options. They also are
explained in Access Help (at lease for 2003).

Good luck!

Gordon
 
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