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beebear99
I am new here and hoping I am posting in the correct place. I would call myself a novice with Access and definiately illiterate with code.
I have created a database for my job and am very satisified of the results. The database contains all of our "client" information and I have created reports we need generated in our daily activities. I have used the navigation form with a client tab and tabs for the generated reports. My attempt to make this user friendly for everyone else to easily see and print the information when needed. Feeling very good up to this point. smile.gif

I have multiple company required forms created in Word and have successfully used mailmerge in Word to add the fields from the database to print the required forms. This works for me, but I don't feel this is very user friendly for others who will be using this. I would like to streamline the process. I have not been able to accomplish the desired result. pullhair.gif I have experimented with various options and not gotten the results I am looking for. I won't get into all of the things I have tried, but I am hoping I am missing a "fix" for this problem and you can help me. Thanks!
Peter46
I understand what you have said but I don't really know what your question is.
beebear99
Sorry, I will try to explain. I want the user to easily navigate to the Word forms and populate the form with the fields from within my database then print the form. I would like to accomplish this with a tab on the navigation form in Access. Basically user opens a tab linking or containing the form, fields populate the form and they print the form. It would be great if the tab could contain all the forms necessary for a particuliar event, ie move-in contract and all forms associated with it. I would be happy at this point if I could just accomplish getting individual forms and having them filled with the information...name, apartment number, move-in date. etc. Does this help?
MadPiet
track down Albert Kallal's Super Easy Word Merge code. I think you can even pick the templates you want to merge to. If I remember correctly, he uses bookmarks in Word. I've done it on my own and using bookmarks in Word and filling them from Access is stupid easy. You can read Albert's code and the comments in it. He explains everything very well.
beebear99
Thanks for you help. I have found Mr. Kallal's posts. I'm still struggling with this. It would be very helpful if I understood code. smile.gif
I appreciate your help.
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