ACC: How to Create an Updatable Unbound Word Object on a Report

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1. Open the sample database Northwind.mdb, and then open the Sales By Category report in Design view.
2. Select and then delete the Sales By Category title in the report header.
3. Select the report header bar.
4. On the Insert menu, click Object.
5. In the Insert Object dialog box, click Create New, and then in the Object Type list, click Microsoft Word Document. Click OK.
   
   Note that a Microsoft Word document opens. Do not type anything in the document.
6. On the File menu, click "Close & Return to Sales by Category: Report."
   
   Note that a blank Microsoft Word Document appears in the report header.
7. Resize the object as needed and move it to the center of the header.
8. Change the Name property of the Microsoft Word object to MyTitle.
9. Set the OnFormat property of the report header to the following event procedure:

          Private Sub ReportHeader_Format(Cancel As Integer, _
            FormatCount As Integer)
   
             Me!MyTitle.OleData = Forms!frmRunReport!CustomTitle.OleData
   
          End Sub
   					

10. Select the Microsoft Word document object. On the Edit menu, click Copy.
11. Save and close the Sales By Category report.
12. Create a new form. On the Edit menu, click Paste to insert a copy of the Microsoft Word Document object, and then finish building the form as follows:

           Form: frmRunReport
           ------------------------------------------------------
           Caption: Run Report
    
           Unbound Object frame (Microsoft Word Document object):
              Name: CustomTitle
              Locked: No
              Enabled: Yes
           Command button:
              Name: RunReport
              Caption: Run Report
              OnClick: [Event Procedure]
    					

13. Set the OnClick property of the RunReport button to the following event procedure:

           Private Sub RunReport_Click()
    
              DoCmd.OpenReport "Sales by Category", acViewPreview
    
           End Sub
    					

14. On the File menu, click Save.
15. Switch the frmRunReport form to Form view.
16. Double-click the Microsoft Word object, and then type "My Custom Categories Title" (without the quotation marks).
17. Change the font size of the title to 14 and the font style to italic.
18. Click Run Report.

Note that the Sales By Category Report opens in preview mode with your custom title.