Converting a MS Word doc to an Access Form

[Guest]

We have a word document being used in the office for client contact
information. 13 different individuals fill out these forms and submit them
to my group.
1. Can I make this Word doc an Access form so that the 13 employees are
populating a single database of contact information?

2. Even if I have to build an original Access form, how do I share the form
with each employee, each computer........we are networked, they have access
to the database (although they don't know)

Thanks,
Jerry

 

[John Vinson]

We have a word document being used in the office for client contact
information. 13 different individuals fill out these forms and submit them
to my group.
1. Can I make this Word doc an Access form so that the 13 employees are
populating a single database of contact information?

No way that I know of. Access Forms are very different objects from
Word documents (or even Word Forms).

2. Even if I have to build an original Access form, how do I share the form
with each employee, each computer........we are networked, they have access
to the database (although they don't know)

That, on the other hand, is easy. Use a "split" database architecture:
a "backend" database containing only the tables, with each user having
a "frontend" containing forms, reports, queries, etc., linked to the
tables in the backend. See the links at

http://home.bendbroadband.com/conradsystems/accessjunkie/splitting.html


John W. Vinson[MVP]