Emailing an OLEObject

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Andy

I have a database I use for tracking performance reviews
and related documents. The documents are embedded word
documents saved in the OLEObjects field.

What I would like to do is be able to email the documents
out to the participants as needed following their review.
I have figured out the mechanics of getting an email to
our Lotus Notes system. However, I cannot figure out how
to get the document out of the OLEObject field to add as
an attachment.

I have tried copying the document from the field to the
hard drive, but something in the format is not correct - I
believe it is an additional header added by Microsoft as
it saves it in the OLEObject field.

Any ideas would be appreciated!

Thanks!
 
Have you tried to simply link the document rather than
embed them. This would allow for you to pull up the
original document through the use of a Hyperlink scenario?
 
Document security is the main reason I cannot do that.

I did not want to link the document as I will be storing
this database on a network drive - encrypted and password
protected - and the folks being reviewed are technically
savvy.

Even if storing them on a local drive, I do not want to
keep a bunch of loose documents out there. I may be being
unrealistic, but wanted to at least try using embedded
documents first.

Probably better tools for me to use out there, but this is
one I can usually code in.

Thanks for responding!
 
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