Hyperlink from Access To Word

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I have an Access db which keeps details relating to a series of
reports ie how often are the reports produced, who they are sent to
etc. In a seperate Word document are the detailed instructions as to
how these reports run. I would like to link the db to the word doc.

Ideally the word doc would open either from a hyperlink or a button
on
the Access form. I would like to open direct to the exact word.doc
page. The Word doc is constantly being amended and updated, so I
cannot link to a set page, where as the link in the index always
retains
the correct page link


The word.doc is set up by having an index at the front which has a
hyperlink/field code direct to the correct page. (You hold down the
Ctrl and click the index name. and looks like (C:\Instructions\Reports
\HYPERLINK
\/"_Toc167766496")




I can hyperlink ok from Access to to the Word Index page but I would
like to go to the actual page, any thoughts as to whether this is
possible,
 
One possibility is to Bookmark the topics in the doc & hyperlink directly to
the bookmarks, bypassing the TOC altogether.
 
Bookmarks in Word docs identify text content not physical page locations
(because there are none). Therefore the bookmarks flow with the text to
which they pertain. It's only if the bookmarked content gets deleted that
the hyperlink would break... the bookmark gets deleted too.
 
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