Word document in Report.

[rosst]

I have been trying to embed a Word 97 document into an Access 97 Report. The document is about 30 pages in lenght and nothing I seem to do allows me to embed the document.
Any tips on how this might be done (if it can) would be most appreciated.

 

[Fornatian]

If the report is static why don't you just cut and paste the contents into an unbound text box?

Too simple I presume?

Ian

 

[rosst]

Thanks Ian,
I tried to do that but could only paste about a page on first pasting then about half that second time then about half again, then less than one line. I see that circa 65,000 characters is OK for text box and my document is about 40,000. The error message I get when attempting to paste larger chunks is "Text is too long to edit". I'm obviously missing something here, I've set the text box to "can grow" and wonder if there are other settings I can change to allow what should be a simple operation. I'm using Access 97 and Word 97. Any further thoughts would be most Welcome Cheers.

 

[Fornatian]

This might not work work but have you tried inserting thirty text boxes that hold one page each?
Insert a page break after each to make them appear on separate pages?
First thoughts only...

Ian

 

[Fornatian]

Try splitting your report into separate parts and paste them into separate text boxes and split these across pages using page breaks..
Initial thought only. Others may have a better solution.

Ian

 

[Neal]

Could you create a table with one memo field and store your document in it? Then use that field as the control source for the text box on your report? Just an idea.

 

[rosst]

Thanks Ian and Neal. These suggestions work but because my report was formatted and has word tables in it, the unformatted result in Access is too hard to follow.It looks like I'm forced to link it. Cheers.