Hi Ben,

Working from within Word, you can use the Database field. This runs a
query against a database and insert the results into the text. AFAIK if
the query returns a single value the field can go into running text,
while if there are multiple values (more than one field and/or more than
one record) the field result is a table. Here's a field that queries
Northwind and (if I got it right) returns the mean of the total amounts
of all orders:

{DATABASE \d "C:\\Program Files\\Office
2003\\OFFICE11\\SAMPLES\\Northwind.mdb" \s "SELECT AVG(OrderPrice) AS
AvgOrder FROM (SELECT SUM(UnitPrice * Quantity * (1-Discount)) AS
OrderPrice FROM [Order Details] GROUP BY OrderID);" \# $#,##0.00 }

See also http://word.mvps.org/faqs/interdev/GetDataFromDB.htm

If you prefer to work from Access, you can use formfields or bookmarks
in the Word document and write Access VBA code to poke data into them.

--
John Nurick [Microsoft Access MVP]

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