A Arvin Meyer Jan 17, 2004 #2 Joy said: How to open a pdf file using a button(without using hyperlink)on a form. Click to expand... You used to be able to open them inside MS-Access by using the ActiveX control that Adobe provided with the Reader, That no longer works (since Acrobat reared 4.05) Now, you would have to shell out to the program (usually IE) that opens it. http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0018.htm -- Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP Microsoft Access Free Access downloads: http://www.datastrat.com http://www.mvps.org/access
Joy said: How to open a pdf file using a button(without using hyperlink)on a form. Click to expand... You used to be able to open them inside MS-Access by using the ActiveX control that Adobe provided with the Reader, That no longer works (since Acrobat reared 4.05) Now, you would have to shell out to the program (usually IE) that opens it. http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0018.htm -- Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP Microsoft Access Free Access downloads: http://www.datastrat.com http://www.mvps.org/access