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Export data in a textbox on a form in Access to a word document

I have text data in a memo field that is displayed for a record. I need the ability to export the text data in the textbox on the form to a word document. I have seen other postings but mostly to merge or dump from a table.

avalonwgi

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Could someone please respond to this? It is important for me to continue with what I am working on and it has been 4 hours since my post. Thanks for your help!

Kelvin Sparks

You can merge into a word template using bookmarks in Word. Memo data sometimes truncates (will do so if emporting from a query, but work OK if exporting from a table) and I'm not sure what would happen from a form.

Essentially, you have a word template that you open using a background instance of Word, export the text to a bookmark that exists in the correct location on the template then save this as a doc file to a location & filename that you specify..

Is this what you're looking for?

Kelvin

avalonwgi

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Kelvinsparks,
That's not what I was hoping for. I was hoping that this was similar to just exporting to excel. I don't want to early bind, but I would like to late bind word application and then just dump the text to a new and empty word doc. Is that possible and if so, how? (inlcuding the binding)

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avalonwgi

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So I can export the data, but it exports all field data on the form and not the specific fields that i want exported. Is there a way to do this and just as text?

avalonwgi

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I got it to work with some minor changes. Thanks