Access is not a word processor and will not necessarily want to preserve any special characters associated with word processing. If what you want cannot be managed by a report design template, you will not do any editing from within Access.
Word is the RTF editor of choice for any MS output from Access, STL, or any other application except Word itself. You can take a report or other object and try to "Publish it using Word" based on a toolbar icon with a big blue W in it. Do everything else you want first because when you publish using Word, you must eventually save that file for anything to persist. AND once you DO publish using Word, the thing you published is no longer inside Access.
