I need to merge data from Access into a Word Document using VBA in Access. I have found several solutions online, but all are very complex and full of bugs. Does anyone know a good simple way to Open a document, merge data in from Access, or directly assign values to merge fields, and the allow the user to print or save the document?

Thanks in advance.

Mike

Mike
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Mike
EchoVue.com

Not to worry...

I found some very simple code that works well - It may not be the best way of doing it, but it should work, and keep it all very simple.

 Dim objWord As Object

 Set objWord = GetObject("C:\WordDocs\Agreement.doc")

 objWord.Application.Visible = True
 objWord.Bookmarks("CompanyName").Select
 objWord.Application.Selection.Text = "ACME Corp Limited"

This pulls it up in Word, and then I can let the user manipulate it, or do whatever from there.

Thanks

Mike

Mike
EchoVue.com

I suppose the other way you could do it is to create a report in Access and then show the user how to publish it with word. That's all I've ever done. There probably is a VBA method for doing the same thing but as its so easy to do I have never bothered doing it any other way

Huh! I have never played with the Publish to Word functions. Does that effectively just move the report to word so that the user can edit it?

Thanks

Mike

Mike
EchoVue.com

yes pretty much. you have to preview the report first then you can publish with Word or Excel. I think you could probably set up a macro to handle it if you did not want the users to manually choose what to do with it

Thank Figgis,

This probably isn't the best solution for this particular problem, but I have another that I have been working on for a while, that this will save a lot of headaches on.



Mike
EchoVue.com

where is the best place to place this code to open as a word document when opening a report?