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How do I link a pdf or a jpg to a field in a table in Access?



 
 
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Old May 11th, 2009, 06:41 PM posted to microsoft.public.access
jcearcheo
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Default How do I link a pdf or a jpg to a field in a table in Access?

I am trying to link a pdf in one case, and a jpg in another, to different
fields in an Access database? How do I go about doing this?
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Old May 11th, 2009, 09:22 PM posted to microsoft.public.access
Arvin Meyer MVP
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Default How do I link a pdf or a jpg to a field in a table in Access?

Store the path to the file in a field. Then use something like the following
function to activate the file:

http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0018.htm
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I am trying to link a pdf in one case, and a jpg in another, to different
fields in an Access database? How do I go about doing this?



 




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