Referencing an Access record from WOrd

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Ian on Cowan - 29 Sep 2006 23:03 GMT

Problem: A Word doc contains words (usually in a footnote, but doesn't have
to be), which are keys to records in an Access database. How can these Access
records be displayed when the Word items are clicked, or selected and
clicked?

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 01 Oct 2006 20:11 GMT

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

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

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> Problem: A Word doc contains words (usually in a footnote, but doesn't
> have
> to be), which are keys to records in an Access database. How can these
> Access
> records be displayed when the Word items are clicked, or selected and
> clicked?

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Ian on Cowan - 02 Oct 2006 22:20 GMT

> See the article "Access a database and insert into a Word document the data
> that you find there" at:
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>
> Many thanks Doug, the article gets me started in the right driection.

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