will access do this?

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babygrand

I'm strong in Excel & Word, but a newbie in Access. I think Access might be
able to do this easily, but need advice. I \Our company currently prepares
letters of quotation for machinery we build. We cnfigure these machines in
a variety of ways, different horsepower nototr, different size gear
reducers, rotor blades, floats, etc. All of this I can build into a
fdatabase, and then do a form to pick the different elements of
condfiguration that will structure the quotatio. My question is this:

Can I format a report that will present this information pretty much in a
"letter" type format, with textual information interspersed with fields of
descriptive data? I would want it to look a lot like our existing letter of
quotation, but to be able to pick and choose all the elements that affect
the price of the quote?

For example, will Access take "20 HP" and "3 phase"and "307" and 'AGMA Type
III' from a form, and output it to look like:

20 HP, 3 phase Electric Motor couplesd with a Falk 307 gear reducer, rated
at AGMA III... (and so on)

Don't need someone to explain to me HOW to do it, just can it be done with
Access ??? Is there a particular book that goes in depth on reports, and
how to structure them to look like a Word document (or import the data into
a Word doc??

TIA

babygrand
 
If you have a Word template (?a merge document) that you could merge the
correct data into, you'd only need to get the correct data out of Access
(via a query).

You could do this from the Word side, querying the Access for the
information, or you could do this from the Access side, first selecting and
exporting the data to a Word merge data (text) file, then automating Word to
open that template document.

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Office/Access MVP
 
Thanks Jeff, I'll try that.

babygrand

Jeff Boyce said:
If you have a Word template (?a merge document) that you could merge the
correct data into, you'd only need to get the correct data out of Access
(via a query).

You could do this from the Word side, querying the Access for the
information, or you could do this from the Access side, first selecting
and exporting the data to a Word merge data (text) file, then automating
Word to open that template document.

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Office/Access MVP
 
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