I use linked tables at work, and have no speed issues compared to 'normal' tables.
What flavour of Access are you using?
Are the databases 'local' on your network? We use a linked table over a 64k IDSN line without problems.
There is a "shell" command to fire Word, with the word document:
shell "c:\program files\winword\winword.exe c:\files\document.doc"
for example, but the .exe would have to be in the same place on each machine you use the program - could you guarantee that?
A better way is...
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