I use the following line and it will start an email message even when outlook is not open.
DoCmd.SendObject acSendNoObject, "", "", Me.EMAIL, "", "", Me.sub, Me.Text23
I would like to add a little more to this post. This is a great way to zip contents. I use this with Ghudson browsing example to gather the folder contents. I gather the contents of the folder and record the links in a table called "holdtable". It will drop the zip contents in a folder called...
try this... in your row sourse for the list box
SELECT tblPeopleInsurances.PersonID, tblPeopleInsurances.InsuranceName, tblPeopleInsurances.[Policy#], tblPeopleInsurances.[Group#] FROM tblPeopleInsurances WHERE (((tblPeopleInsurances.PersonID)=[Forms]![frmPeople]![txtPersonID]));
Its possible. This is how I do it:
In the folder where my database is I have a folder called "files". The user can attach an infinite number of files to each record. They can either open them with activeX control or just open them. The database doesnt store the file (this will bloat your DB)...