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I'll give it a go thanks, that did make some sense to me. The database was set up with a unique id number, the "repair number" in this case. But you are completely correct, this is way above my knowledge so will try to read up a bit more. It's the typical scenario, the manager here knows I've...

Would that not print out a (unique) letter for every record? Whereas I Just want it to print the record I happen to be working on at the time. Sorry if I seem dumb, I've actually been in IT support / web design for 10 years but somehow never really had much to do with access!

thanks for the speedy reply, Yes word isn't anywhere near as mysterious as access is to me. I have the template set up in word, it's the access part of it that I'm having problems with. To make a button that copies just certain fields into the word doc, in the right places.

Hi all, Hope you can give me a few pointers as to where to start looking to solve a problem I 've been landed with. I'm no access expert, so this has thrown me a bit. I have written a database for repairs that come into our company, but we also want it to have a couple of buttons that when...