formatting specific text in a record for report printing?

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dale b

i am trying to get specific cells, of a specific record, in a table, to print
bold & underlined on my report without success.

i am new to access, but tend to be the office help source for other
programs;so i am not usually stumped like this. But times a wastin and i
need to get this done. can someone please help me?

thanks in advance,

dale b
 
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Terry

Dale,

Are you printing a report or printing an open table? If it
is a table you are printing then no you can't
format "cells". If it is a report there are several ways
to format controls (cells?) on your report. Do you want
them highlighted all the time or only in certain
circumstances? In the report design view you can set what
font bold underline colour etc you want for each control.
If it is to be highlighted only in certain circumstances
(eg sale is over $500) in design view select the desired
control and Format|Conditional formating should give you
something to look at. nb This feature only arrived in
Access 2000 (I think).

HTH,

Terry
 
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dale b

Terry,

Thanks for your response.

I am printing a report. The data is mostly static (engineering data that
only changes with design or error discovery). What i would like to do is
make a change to a specific field of a specific record, and then somehow, get
that specific record and field to print (bold/underline) in the report.

I have been able to change "all" the text in specific field for "all"
records, but not a specific record/field. I am sure there must be a way of
flagging/assigning special formatting conditions like this. I have a hard
copy of a different report, from a different company that is doing it; but I
can't get access to the person that developed that report.

Does that explain my problem any better?

Thank you, in advance.

Dale B
 
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Steve Schapel

Dale,

As Terry mentioned, Conditional Formatting (found under the Format menu
of the report design) will help with your requirement here. It is
difficult to advise any more specifically than this, as we don't know
what distinguishes the record(s) you want to apply the special
formatting to.
 
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