Repost: display Word doc in form

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Nick Mirro

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I would like to have a multipage Word document viewable on an Access form?

I would like it to be scrollable. It would also be nice if the text could
be selected. Is this possible to implement?

Nick
 
Hi Nick

You could goto Toolbar more options and select RichTextBoxCtrl from the
options.
Add it to the form by clicking on the form and right click the control

Goto RichTextboxcontrol object properties and in the appearance tab change
scroll bar options to rtfboth and in General tab add the filename which you
want to view.

Hope this helps
All the best
Madhuri
 
Doing this with a Word document is only possible by using a ObjectFrame
or BoundObjectFrame control on the form. Normally this will display an
image of part of the first page of the document, but you can set things
up so that double-clicking the control "activates" the document by
launching Word. This lets you not only select the text but also edit it.
 
If I save the .doc as htm or rtf, can it then be displayed in a scrollable
window?

Nick
 
yeah, save the file as .rtf

goto word and in save as choose to save as rtf

Madhuri
Nick Mirro said:
If I save the .doc as htm or rtf, can it then be displayed in a scrollable
window?

Nick
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I was wondering if displaying such a document in an object frame would be
scollable.

Nick
 
What a pleasant surprise! Nice to hear from you. Hope you're living a
"properly enviable" lifestyle in nz (middle earth : - )

That's a nice solution. Thanks.

Nick


Graham Mandeno said:
G'day Nick

Long time no hear :-)

You might like to take a peek at the Microsoft Office Framer Control at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FD-2169-4FAC-82AF-770AA9B60D77&displaylang=en

Here is a TinyURL for it: http://tinyurl.com/7hv8d

I don't know what its future is, or how it will be licensed or supported,
but it looks promising from what I've seen.

--
Cheers!

Graham Mandeno [Access MVP]
Auckland, New Zealand

Nick Mirro said:
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I would like to have a multipage Word document viewable on an Access
form?

I would like it to be scrollable. It would also be nice if the text
could be selected. Is this possible to implement?

Nick
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Only after "activating" it.

If you convert the document to RTF and display it in a rich text control
it will be scrollable. (One proviso is that complex Word documents may
contain things that can't be displayed in a rich text control.)

But as Graham says, check out the Office Framer Control first.




I was wondering if displaying such a document in an object frame would be
scollable.

Nick
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Can I ask you what a rich text control is? Is it an activex control? Where
do I locate it. The framer control that Graham suggested requires
registration and a large fee for business use. We will be distributing the
app and so can't use it.

Nick



John Nurick said:
Only after "activating" it.

If you convert the document to RTF and display it in a rich text control
it will be scrollable. (One proviso is that complex Word documents may
contain things that can't be displayed in a rich text control.)

But as Graham says, check out the Office Framer Control first.
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There are quite a few rich text controls around but not all of them work
reliably on Access forms. I suggest you check out Steven Lebans's free
control at www.lebans.com and also the fully featured but commercial
Total Access Memo at www.fmsinc.com.

Can I ask you what a rich text control is? Is it an activex control? Where
do I locate it. The framer control that Graham suggested requires
registration and a large fee for business use. We will be distributing the
app and so can't use it.

Nick
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