I understand that container fields are basically holding areas for lots of things. What I have is a database of members in an organization. What I would like to do is to create a membership ceftificate and be able to populate it with the member number, name, etc from the database. Is this possible using the container field to hold the graphic file (or Word file, whatever I use to create the membership certificate.)

TIA for you assistance,

Roger

Sure. Use one Word file or one graphic file per member. Link.

Thanks for the reply. I think I understand what you are saying, however, I don't think that is really practicle for a membership in the 100's. Would not the database become rather large, unwieldy. Currently I have almost 3000 prospective members already in the database, and over 100 that have joined. What I would like to do is to creat a blank membership form, then when a new member joins, to be able to click on a link and have the form (graphic, RTF, ?) come up with the members name, membership number (a unique number) and whatever else I want to include. I can, through a "find", generate only those names I want to print a membership certificate for. I can generate in Word a certificate and populate it with the names, etc, (now manually) but would like to use the information already in the database to populate the information in the certificate. Possible?

TIA

By "Link", I meant select the option "Store only a reference to the file." So you won't be storing the members' pictures in the database, just their reference.

You can design a layout with whatever fields you want and then print this as a certificate for whomever you want.