Publishing to Word from Access

[Justin Childs - SOM]

I work for the State of Maine, and I use Microsoft Access every day- it's the
most helpful tool for my job. I usually print reports, publish them into
Word, and then email them in a mass mailing.

However, I think that the formatting from Access should be able to be
transferred over into Word; lines, borders, and especially check boxes. Many
of these things exist in Word as it is, and I don't understand why they
couldn't be transferrable between programs.

Just a suggestion, but love the products anyways.

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Justin
we are having trouble with the graphs not showing when we publish the access
report into word, any ideas, are there some settings we need to change. Our
headings and subreports are fine, it is just the graphs

 

[Peter R. Fletcher]

This comes up all the time. Access's "Publish to Word" option ids
(IMHO) very misleadingly named. It actually exports the Report to a
..RTF (Rich _Text_ Format) file. All graphics and a lot of formatting
are lost. If you want to keep a Report more or less in the form in
which appears in Access or when printed out directly, you have to us
the .SNP (Snapshot) format. This requires the free Snapshot viewer
(automatically installed with most versions of Office) to be on the
system to read and display the files.

Justin
we are having trouble with the graphs not showing when we publish the access
report into word, any ideas, are there some settings we need to change. Our
headings and subreports are fine, it is just the graphs

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Peter R. Fletcher