Formatting certain parts of a report

[zevw]

A user that writes case reports, and used Microsoft Word in the past asked me. They are entering all the data now in a Access database, and I created the report pretty similar to the way it looked in Word.

They want to know if they can tag certain words / sentences within the report to be bold, italic etc.

I don't think it is possible only through complex programming, but I do not know alot of things, and wanted to learn if there is a easy way around this.

I will appreciate any help or advice on this.

 

[lameid]

The best way to accomplish this is to programatically do things in or with word. Mail merges are the simplest technique but may not be sufficent.

You can set bookmarks in word and replace them programatically. I saw this done once almost 10 years ago.

You could also store pieces of word documents in an access table and assemble them. This is theory to me as I have not seen it done. You might also search microsoft's website... I think they have a white paper on creating a document management system using office.

 

[Lilliabeth]

If you happen to have Access 2007, you can format memo data types as rtf.

Lilliabeth
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