converting a word document

  • Thread starter Thread starter Cheryl
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Cheryl,

I imagine all you want to do is have the Access form look just like the Word
document. You can do that by simply saving a screen capture of the document
to disk, and setting the form's Picture property to the pathname of that
image.

I would counsel you to forget about it, however, for several reasons.
* Setting a background image to a form is costly in terms of
performance.
* Embedding a picture in a form is costly in terms of file size.
* Since your Access form will have far greater functionality than the
Word document did, making the form look like a document is pointless, and in
my view, ultimately counter-productive. I feel it would be much wiser to
make the psychological break and make the Access form look like an Access
form. In that way, the users clearly understand that the level of
functionality, and indeed the way in which the form is used, is quite
different to the Word document.

Regards,
Graham R Seach
Microsoft Access MVP
Sydney, Australia

Microsoft Access 2003 VBA Programmer's Reference
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0764559036.html
 
Not directly. What do you want to do with the word document? If it is to
simply use it as a template, then consider scanning the doc as a pic and
using the pic as the format for a form. You could then add controls in
certain areas of the form to match up with the doc picture, although this
seems a round about way to get what you want...

Perhaps if you explain what you want to do, someone can help you.

Damon
 
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