Linking Word97 to Access97

[Chris waller]

The version of Office that I currently use is 97. I have very little
programming knowledge.

I have created a form in Word. There are a number of fields on the form. The
first one contains the National Insurance Number, the second the name of the
person and the third is the sex of the person. All this data is held on an
Access database. What I want to do, is to input the National insurance number
in the appropriate field on the Word Document and for each of the subsequent
fields to be updated with the correct data from the Access Database. It has
been suggested that this could be done as a macro on exiting the particular
fields in question, however, this may be a little beyond me. Any help that
can be given would be appreciated.

 

[Doug Robbins]

See the article "Access a database and insert into a Word document the data
that you find there" at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/InterDev/GetDataFromDB.htm

You're about to develop some more programming knowledge.
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Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP