storing documents in ACCESS 2013 outside the database

[lepsid]

Hello!
I am new one in using access 2013. I have created table and form in database. One of the field is "attachment" field. I realized that MS access stores "attachments" data inside the database, which increase the size of database. I know there are some limitation in Access database size (up to 2 GB). I don't want that adding attachments increase the database size. So, I'd like to store the documents externally, outside the access database, in some folders. So, is it possible to do in the MS Access 2013, and if so, how? Is there some settings for storing the documents externally?

Thank you very much

[pbaldy]

I just store the path of the file in a text field. You can use FileDialog or this type of thing to let the user point to a file:

http://access.mvps.org/access/api/api0001.htm

You can use FollowHyperlink to open files for user viewing.