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Michael--

While you can write an Access VBA macro to transfer the text from a database field to an InDesign text frame, it'll be a very slow process. I think you'd be writing a macro that exports the record contents as an InDesign tagged text file and then places that file in the InDesign layout. Placing pre-formatted text is about a billion times faster than entering and formatting text one field at a time.

Another thought would be to have the Access database emit XML--I don't remember if Access can do this, but it's easy enough to write VB/VBA for (as XML is a text file).

I've got to find a copy of Access so that I can help with questions like yours--I only have an old version of FileMaker (most of the time, when I need a database, I write it myself in VB<g>).

Thanks,

Ole