Missing pictures and bars when outputing report to Word

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I have a report for my invoices. It contains one picture (our logotype) and
several bars/lines.
When I output the report to Word, none of the graphics (the picture or the
bars) are exported into Word. Only the text.

Is this a bug or have I missed something?
Thanks for any help!
 
You have not missed anything: that's how the Rich Text Format (RTF) works.

You may be able to use the Snapshot format, or generate a PDF output.
 
Ok, but I thought there was a possibility to generate a .DOC file (after all
Word can use images!).

Anyway, what do I need to be able to use the Snapshot format or PDF output??
I need the exported-file to be editable as well!
Thanx!
 
Sorry, neither snapshots not PDF are editable formats.

The snapshot viewer is a free download:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;175274

To generate a PDF you need to buy Acrobat from Adobe (not just the free
Acrobat reader), or get a clone such as Ghostscript.

For an editable result, you might be better to create a merge document in
Word, laid out as you want it, and then run the merge to get the data from
Access. That works for most things except where you need subreports to
manage the related data.
 
For an editable result, you might be better to create a merge document in
Word, laid out as you want it, and then run the merge to get the data from
Access. That works for most things except where you need subreports to
manage the related data.
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The above two sentences makes absolutely no sence to me whatsoever. :-) I
have tried to look it up in the help of Access but no luck.
Can you tell me where I can find more information on creating a "merge
document" in Word, and how to run "the merge" ?
Thanks.
 
To create a merge document in Word that gets its data from your Access
database:

1. Open Word. Open a new document.

2. On the Tools menu, choose the Merge option. It's different in different
versions, e.g. in Word 2003 it's called 'Letters and Mailings'.

3. As you follow this merge wizard in Word, tell it to get the data from an
existing file. It will pop up the File Open dialog, and at the bottom of
this screen you can choose 'Files of type'. Tell it 'Access databases', and
navigate to the mdb file. Then choose same table or query that supplied the
data to your report.

4. You can now use Word to lay out the data in the way you want, adding the
lines and logo in the same way you would for any other Word document.
 
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