After you add an attachment control to a form, you can add, edit, remove, and save attached files directly from that form. When a record contains multiple attachments, you can also scroll through the attached files, which you cannot do when working with a table. Note: The person who designed the form may have made the form read-only. If that is the case, you can use the Attachments dialog box only to save attached files to your hard disk drive or a location on your network.
Open the form that displays your attachments, and locate the record to which you want to attach a file. The Mini toolbar appears:. Note: If you added the attachment control to the datasheet section of a split form, the Mini toolbar does not appear. For more information about split forms, see the article Create a split form. Click the View Attachments button the paperclip icon to open the Attachments dialog box.
Use the Look in list to navigate to the file that you want to attach, and then click Open. Note: The steps in this section apply to forms and reports. Click the Back left or Forward right arrows to scroll through the attached files. If you want to know the names of the files, click the View Attachments button to open the Attachments dialog box.
The names of attached files appear in the Attachments list. The steps in this section apply to tables, forms, and reports. You can save either one or all of the files that are attached to a given record to locations on your hard disk drive or network. Remember that when you choose to save all files, you cannot choose to save some of the files — you must save them all. To selectively save files, you need to do so one at a time.
Open the table, form, or report that contains your attachments, and then open the Attachments dialog box. Open the Attachments dialog box from a table. Open the table in Datasheet view, and then double-click the attachment field that contains the attachment you want to save.
Open the Attachments dialog box from a form or report. Use the Save in list to navigate to the new location for your file, and then click Save. Use the Look in list to navigate to the new location for your files, and then click Save. Double-click the attachment field in your table to open the Attachments dialog box. In your form in either Layout view or Form view , navigate to the record that contains the attachment you want to remove, and click the View Attachment button on the Mini toolbar to open the dialog box.
In the Attachments dialog box, select the file that you want to delete and click Remove. The following section explains how to use your keyboard to place focus in the Navigation Pane and open the table, form, or report that contains attached files. The steps also explain how to browse attached files and open the Attachments dialog box.
Note: If the Navigation Pane is closed, pressing F11 opens it and places the focus in the pane. If the pane is open, pressing F11 closes it. You must press F11 again to open the pane and shift focus to it. If you open a table, Access places the cursor in the first field in the table.
If you open a form or report, Access places the focus in the first field. Press the TAB key to move among the buttons in the dialog box and to move from the buttons to the list of attached files under Attachments. Note: Records may contain more than one attachment. If you need to select an attachment from a list of two or more files, press the TAB key to move to the file list, and then use the arrow keys to select the file that you want.
Next, press the TAB key to return to the buttons and select the action that you want. These steps apply only if you have a Microsoft Natural Keyboard and when a record contains more than one attachment. As needed, press the TAB key to move the focus to the attachment control.
By default, Access highlights the control and the label associated with the control, if the label exists. Press the TAB key to move among the buttons in the dialog box and to move from the buttons to the list of attached files under Attachments Double-click to edit.
Records may contain more than one attachment. The following sections provide reference information about attachments, including the image and document file formats that attachments support, file-naming conventions, and some information about attaching files to records programmatically. Access supports the following graphic file formats natively, meaning the attachment control renders them without the need for additional software. As a rule, you can attach any file that was created with one of the Microsoft Office programs.
You can also attach log files. In addition, file names must conform to these guidelines:. Names cannot contain the following characters: question marks? When you attach any of the following file types to a database, Access compresses them if they are not already compressed natively.
Access blocks the following types of attached files. At this time, you cannot unblock any of the file types listed here. Access exposes an object model and programming interfaces for attaching files to records programmatically by using Visual Basic for Applications VBA code. Notes: When you open an attached file in its parent program for viewing or editing, Access places a temporary copy of the file in a temporary folder.
To find the location of your temporary file folder, follow these steps: Start Windows Internet Explorer. On the Tools menu, click Internet Options. On the General tab, click Settings. Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help.
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