Report image shifts from one pc to another

[Melanie Beck]

Help! I have inherited a database with a report that contains a large
image - it's actually a form that was created in Word and the user
copied/pasted it into the report. She then put the database fields
(name, etc) over top of the report. She's trying to put all of the
company's HR employee forms in the database. Anyway, her method seemed
like a clever (to my untrained eye) way of getting around having to
recreate the form entirely in Access. It looks fine on her PC and prints
perfectly.

However, when she opens it on any other PC from either the network or a
local copy on the PC, the whole report shifts and the "form" is off
center and none of the fields line up correctly.

I compared our PCs and set the default printer to the same printer -
same driver, screen resolution is the same, the computers are the same
make/model with all the same software on them.

I am not sure how to fix it, other than delete the image and recreate
the form totally in Access without using an image of the original Word
form.

 

[Wayne-I-M]

Hi Melanie

I think (just my idea) that this may be a time when it's best to spend a
some time re-designing the form using access controls (take out the word
doc). It will take a while but it will prevent the same problem happening.