How do I open a Word document within ACCESS and scroll through the document?

I want to view a Word document within MS Access 2000 and I also want
to scroll through the tekst and print the document if necessary.
Now I use a hyperlink that automatically opens MS Word but if you
close Word you have to manually select MS access again to go back to
the database.
So is it possible to open, view (and scroll) and print the document
from within access??

Thanks in advance!

I am not sure that I see what you think is wrong with what you are
doing. It is simple, it works, and you just have to (at most) close
Word and/or click on the Access tab on the program bar to get back
where you were. To do what I think you want to do, you would need to
use Word Automation in Access VBA to open and display the document and
loop until it was closed before continuing. This would only save you
one step, and would involve some programming. AFAIK, there is no
mini-Word viewer that will literally run within Access.


On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:54:48 +0200, Toine wrote:

I want to view a Word document within MS Access 2000 and I also want
to scroll through the tekst and print the document if necessary.
Now I use a hyperlink that automatically opens MS Word but if you
close Word you have to manually select MS access again to go back to
the database.
So is it possible to open, view (and scroll) and print the document
from within access??

Thanks in advance!

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