Cutting and Pasting from a report

[Steve]

I am trying to find out if a user that looks at a lot of reports can "cut and
paste" data from the report and put into another program. Example, if the
report lists customers email address, can they "cut" the email address and
"paste" it into outlook?

 

[Jeff Boyce]

Steve

Which version of Access?

"looks at a ... report" ... do you mean a printed version or in
print-preview mode?

You are describing a "how" (get an email address by copy/paste from a
report). How 'bout if you describe the "what"? Folks here may have
alternate approaches that can do what you need, if we knew what that was...

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Office/Access MVP

 

[Steve]

The version of access I have is 2003.

The report that they are looking at is in "preview mode".

What I am trying to do is copy data from a report in preview mode to another
program.

I hope that I have made this a little clearer??? Thanks for your help.

Steve

 

[Jeff Boyce]

I'm not aware of a way to capture the data in a print-preview version of a
report.

Why not use a query to return the data you want, instead of waiting until
the data is placed in print-out form (a report)?

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Office/Access MVP

 

[John Spencer]

As far as I know, you cannot cut and paste from the preview of an Access report.

You can export the data to a word document or to a PDF or a text document and
then cut and paste from that.

John Spencer
Access MVP 2002-2005, 2007-2008
The Hilltop Institute
University of Maryland Baltimore County

 

[Steve]

I will try to develope that...thanks!

I'm not aware of a way to capture the data in a print-preview version of a
report.

Why not use a query to return the data you want, instead of waiting until
the data is placed in print-out form (a report)?

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Office/Access MVP