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Hi,

I am working on a database used to store information, and then generate
customized letters. I have most of it working, (Thanks to the posts in
this group =)) I have a button which can be clicked and it opens word
and fills in the blanks of my template appropriately, with the
exception of 2 areas. These areas of the letter need to be pulled from
subforms of the existing form, and in the word document they need to be
a list or possibly a table, and dynamic in nature. Does anyone have
any idea how I can accomplish this? I am a novice at best, so please
speak as plainly as possible =)

Jun 5 '06 #1
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da**********@gm ail.com wrote:
Hi,

I am working on a database used to store information, and then generate
customized letters. I have most of it working, (Thanks to the posts in
this group =)) I have a button which can be clicked and it opens word
and fills in the blanks of my template appropriately, with the
exception of 2 areas. These areas of the letter need to be pulled from
subforms of the existing form, and in the word document they need to be
a list or possibly a table, and dynamic in nature. Does anyone have
any idea how I can accomplish this? I am a novice at best, so please
speak as plainly as possible =)


Not sure you're going to like this response, but hard questions have
hard answers. This is covered in Access Developer's Handbook. IIRC,
they pass a recordset to Word and convert it to a table (could be an
ADO recordset converted to a string... can't remember!)

To make a long story short, their code does it for ya. And it's not a
trivial bit of code, either. The book has a working example that
creates an invoice in Word.

Jun 6 '06 #2
Thank you! I really appreiciate your giving me a place to look...
pi********@hotm ail.com wrote:
da**********@gm ail.com wrote:
Hi,

I am working on a database used to store information, and then generate
customized letters. I have most of it working, (Thanks to the posts in
this group =)) I have a button which can be clicked and it opens word
and fills in the blanks of my template appropriately, with the
exception of 2 areas. These areas of the letter need to be pulled from
subforms of the existing form, and in the word document they need to be
a list or possibly a table, and dynamic in nature. Does anyone have
any idea how I can accomplish this? I am a novice at best, so please
speak as plainly as possible =)


Not sure you're going to like this response, but hard questions have
hard answers. This is covered in Access Developer's Handbook. IIRC,
they pass a recordset to Word and convert it to a table (could be an
ADO recordset converted to a string... can't remember!)

To make a long story short, their code does it for ya. And it's not a
trivial bit of code, either. The book has a working example that
creates an invoice in Word.


Jun 7 '06 #3

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