How can I get multi-selection Combo Box data to display appropriately in a Word Doc

[kelsabell]

I'm an Access novice so please forgive me for being simplistic with this question. I have an Access database that contains, among many other things, several combo box wherein users are able to select more than one item in a list. I'm trying to setup a mail merge in a Word doc that will pull this data. Every other data point transters to the Word template just fine except for these particular combo boxes. (I did some reading on these forums and found that this seems to be a common problem, but I haven't encountered any solutions that work for me.) What I'm wondering is this: is there a way that I can make Word and Access play nice when it comes to putting these data items into a mail merge? One of the solutions I tried was to put the text into my template and setup checkboxes that could then be linked to the Access data, but that didn't get far. E.g....
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Any suggestions?

[zmbd]

Ah, as so often happens the multi-select-listbox bytes again... punny
As seen here: http://bytes.com/topic/access/answer...select-listbox (don't bother to follow the links in this thread, they are all long dead; thus, the code they reference is no longer available) you basically need to pass a record set to the word document and that's not what is happening with your document. The control isn't part of any recordset... nor to the best of my knowledge can it be used that way directly.

So in order to do anything with the control, you'll need to understand how a multiselect works and the common methods of retrieving the information out of the control:

ListBox.MultiSelect Property (Access)
Office 2010

One Method to get the selected information

Use a multi-select list box to filter a report - Allen Browne
Mr. Browne most likely has the easiest to follow methods... but I'm a little bias here given the amount of help his site has given me over the years.

From here, we're going to need to either store the query that you will create using the control's values- and then you can open the word document by hand (IMHO the easiest for newer VBA programmers or for those just occational type merges), store the query and then call word to open with the mail merge document that has already been linked to a query with that name, or pass the query via application automation. However, it really depends on your skill set as to the best method to use to get your information out to word.

To give you an example of application automation read thru the following insight article: Application Automation now this does deal with Outlook and Excel; however, word is essentially the same basic principles


SO
Read thru the information
Please attempt one method or the other.
If you get stuck... you should go ahead and repost your efforts to this thread. When you do, please let us know which version of office/access you are using. If you encounter any errors, we will need to know on what line of code the error occurs and Please post the EXACT title, number, and text of the error message. Please do not alter, omit, nor abbreviate the information provided in the error message