# Getting Access report into Word
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-access-report-into-word/383226
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [December 7, 2006, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-access-report-into-word/383226 "2006-12-07T15:46:34Z")
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### Author:  [@Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Call_Me_Shirley)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2006, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-access-report-into-word/383226/1 "2006-12-07T15:46:34Z")
I have an Access report that I would like to convert to a Word document. The problem is that this Access report has a number of pictures in it. I’ve tried every way I can think of to get it into Word but the pictures never make it over. Does anyone know if this can be done, and if so how to do it?
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### Author:  [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2006, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-access-report-into-word/383226/2 "2006-12-08T00:32:54Z")
This has apparently been a problem for a decade or more. In trying my own ideas, and then googling, the best info I could find was this [usenet thread](http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.access.reports/browse_thread/thread/dd37ee22939e3ae4/dd9ebb7ecf959f95%23dd9ebb7ecf959f95%5B/url) from 1998:
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> There is no way to export your Access graphics into Word. Access’ RTF
> export is lacking in this area. One possible solution is to design a “mail
> merge” report in Word which accepts table data, and then “merge” the data
> from the Access query.