MSAccess reports written to MSWord losing print lines

[GAN]

I have a formatted report in MSAccess and when I print the report to MSWord,
I lose the line attributes that are in the Access report. I need to dump
this Access report to a Word document so I can send it off to be printed. Is
there any way to correct this problem besides using a printable characer like
'------'?

 

[Larry Linson]

I have a formatted report in MSAccess and when I print the report to
MSWord,
I lose the line attributes that are in the Access report. I need to dump
this Access report to a Word document so I can send it off to be printed.
Is
there any way to correct this problem besides using a printable characer
like
'------'?

Printing to word is via RTF "Rich Text File", and Access built-in support
does not carry graphics over.

You can use an Access snapshot with the freely-downloadable reader, or write
to a PDF file either using Adobe Acrobat, or a third party PDF generator, or
an open-source PDF generator. I have used the first option in the past, but
now use an open-source program called PDF Creator which I obtained at
http://sourceforge.net, and have been happy with it.

You might be happier with the reports in Access 2007 and Word 2007... they
both use XML and you may have the additional features you need.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP