using word in access

[Guest]

Hi

Could anyone tell me if this is possible and if so how to do it.

I am creating a database to do incident reports in. With date, time, name,
type of incident fields and so on. There is also going to be a narrative
field, what I would like to do for the narrative field is have it link to a
word document. I would need to put a button on the main form that brings up
Word so the narrative could be typed in there, then when the user completes
the doc and closes word, if possible I would like to automatically name the
doc ( perhaps use the auto number that is assigned to the record) save it and
have a link to it on the form.

As always I appreciate any help and thanks in advance.

Chuck

 

[Kyle]

Chuck, I think a little more explanation might help. Why do you need to
have the text in the field go to an external document? Is the field
going to be part of a larger document, or is the text of the field
going to be the only text in the document?

Could you instead create a report in Access that you could then use the
"Publish to Word" feature to create the document?

In my experience, connections outside the database are notoriously
unreliable, because if the database is moved, the dependencies are
broken and no longer work.

 

[Guest]

I wanted to use word primarily just as a text editor for the spell check and
other grammar functions in it. I just found out that spell check works in a
memo field ( boy do I feel dumb ) . so I won't need Word after all. But
thanks for the offer of help
chuck