Linking Records to Files on a Server

I work for an engineering firm and I have a table in my Access 2002 database that holds data regarding engineering drawings (i.e, drawing #, drawing size, project #, etc.).
I have a .PDF file for each drawing and these .PDF files are located on one of the servers at work. Each record in my table (each drawing) has an associated .PDF fle, or each record could have more than one .PDF file associated with it.
I need to link each record in my table (each drawing) to its .PDF file, which is on a server. I've added a 'text' column to my table and I also have the full path to where the actual .PDF files are.
I need help on how I can get the .PDF file name for each record and insert it into my table.
Can anyone please help????
Thanks in advance.

The connection between a record and its file is that each record (each engineering drawing data) has it's associated electronic file in a .PDF format. So for example, if there's a record, let's say drawing number 123, there's a .PDF file for it on the server called 123.PDF.
When I say I need to grab the file name, I need to actually get the text '123.PDF' and insert it into a column in the table for the record that has 123 as the drawing number.
So for example, I have a table that has data about all engineering drawings. One of the columns in this table is called 'pathToFile'. I have a folder on a server that has all of the electronic files for each actual drawing in a folder. I need help with syntax and algorithm to write code to loop through each record in my table, get the drawing number and based on the drawing number, go to the folder on the server and get it's .PDF file and insert in into my 'pathToFile' column. So for the example above, if the drawing number is 123, then the entry in my 'pathToFile' column for that record would be '\\server_name\folder_name\123.pdf'.
I hope this makes sense.

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