Access Report Loses Content When I Publish It to Word

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David H. - 12 Sep 2007 01:26 GMT

When my Access 2000 report is exported using the "Publish to MS Word" tool
button, it seems to lose important content like lines and other graphic
elements, as well as formatted text objects (which Access treats as embedded
OLE objects). I'm having a lot of trouble creating reports that will look
good in Word. (I really do need to export to Word rather than creating a
snapshot or PDF file. And these are complex reports, so please don't suggest
using Word mail-merge.)

Is there any place where these limitations are documented, and workarounds
are suggested?

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Rick Brandt - 12 Sep 2007 02:40 GMT

> When my Access 2000 report is exported using the "Publish to MS Word"
> tool button, it seems to lose important content like lines and other
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> Is there any place where these limitations are documented, and
> workarounds are suggested?

Documented? Lots of that in these groups. I don't know about anywhere else.

There are no *reliable* work-arounds. Many things will give the appearance of
helping only to have the problem reappear on other record sets or to users with
other printers and PC configurations.

In a few cases I actually wrote custom routines to create my own RTF files with
plain old file i/o code. PITA, but for a small number of important reports it
was worth the effort.

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