This may sound far-fetched, but is it possible to use a Word document like an Access form?

My clients would like to enter data into a Word document and save it to their Access database. If so, where could I find information accomplishing this task?

You can.

Go to the help files in Microsoft Word (97) and type in (or scroll to) "exporting to Word" (without the quotes http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/ubb/smile.gif )

Press Display and choose "Import a Word text file into Microsoft Access" from the Topics Found Window.

I would question why they would want to do this because, in my point of view, life becomes more difficult when you try to import 'free' text data into a table format like Access'. However, if you must...good luck.

Thanks for your reply.

To answer your question: The company has existing Word documents that they're familiar with and they would like to continue working with those documents. I thought that there might be a way to make a form look identical to their existing documents and still have the same functionality as an Access form. The way it sounds, that's not possible without a lot of work.

Much thanks.

I have no doubt that you could make a form in Access look like the Word Documents that they are presently using.

I would suggest doing this before I would suggest importing Word Documents

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try another approach using Access forms.

If you only want to store the complete Word-Documents inside an Access table, then you could use the Document Administration Wizard.