Importing a word document

[geraldcor]

Hello all,
In our company we send off a lot of reports for a given sample. Sometimes the office folks need to do a specialized report with tables and other formatting. They would like to be able to a: be able to have another report where they could just write stuff, comments, etc about the sample and b: be able to import these word documents that have the tables and other formatting. If we could not use word at all that would be great but I don't think there is a way to do the formatting necessary in access. So my question is: how do I import a word document and have it displayed in a form and then print on the report. I would like to store the whole document in one field in a table. (is this at all possible?) I have searched this forum and haven't found what I'm looking for. Thank you for any help.

Greg

 

[Blue6688]

No solution so far

I am doing research how to import Word doc into access. These are what I have found so far and seem not encourage.
1. If you have a table in Word, you can paste in into Exce; and have it link to access. But if any field in the Word table have more than 255 characteres, anything about the limit would be lost in Excel because of its limitation.
2. If you copy the whole word documents in an Access field with memo settings, you will lose all format information (like color, bullet) because access has limited formatting capability. Addtionally, each memo field only holds about 7-8 pages information for Word doc.

I am trying to place audit report/finding from word to Access. No luck so far.

Let me know if you find anything interesting.