>>Yes you can but the only way you can view it is in word. You could use automation to open word and see the document But as Boris says better to store a link to the document location.
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>Would you enlighten me how to do this with MS SQL Server so that I have access from somewhere else?
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You can store the contents in a varbinary(max) column with the FILESTREAM attribute
( you will need a filestreamgroup on the database level)
To view/edit the doc file, you need to put the contents of the column into a temp file
Gregory