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Subject:RE: Importing Access records into Word From:"Campbell, Art" <artc -at- northchurch -dot- net> To:"'Mary Webber'" <mary -dot- webber -at- tenzing -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:54:34 -0500
Assuming you only want to grab the raw data and import it without
reformatting:
In Access, save the table/report/whatever as .rtf. In Word, open the .rtf.
Art
Art Campbell
Technical Publications
Newbridge Networks
Five Corporate Drive
Andover, MA 01810
978 691-6344
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary Webber [mailto:mary -dot- webber -at- tenzing -dot- com]
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 12:15 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Importing Access records into Word
>
>
> 21 Jan 00
>
> Hello all -
>
> This is a cry for help - I'm a Framemaker aficionado, but I
> am working for a
> company that has not yet converted to my point of view - we
> are using Word
> 2000.
>
> One of the engineers has just asked if it is possible, and if
> so how, to
> import individual records from an Access database into Word.
>
> I imagine one clicks 'import' , but evidently the problem
> comes in with
> getting just the one record, and being able to edit it, as
> opposed to the
> entire database.
