hiding control textbox when no data

[Associates]

Hi,

I am wondering if there is a way to hide the whole textbox control and does
not leave big space when it has no data/value in the Access report.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance

 

[Duane Hookom]

Define "big space". Do you mean horizontally or vertically?
Have you set the text box Can Shrink property to Yes?

 

[Associates]

Thank Duane for your reply.

By "big space", I mean horizontally big space like the example below

textbox control 1
textbox control 2
textbox control 3

if there is no data/value for textbox control 2, it shows like the following
in the report

electronic

aerospace

There is a blank line in between electronic and aerospace in the report as
result of textbox control 2 contains no data.

What I hope to see is as follows

electronic
aerospace

the vacant line is replaced by the data in textbox control 3.

I wonder if this is feasible in Access report.

Thank you in advance

 

[Duane Hookom]

What you are describing is vertical not horizontal.

I asked a question in my previous post that you did not answer.

 

[Associates]

Thank you Duane for your reply.

Sorry that I misunderstood your question regarding horizontal or vertical.
Thanks for clarifying that.

The other question I did not realise that I had not answered it. Sorry about
that.

I did try to use the "can shrink" property and set it to Yes and it still
leaves that gap (blank lines) in the report.

However, what i have done now is i have downsized the textbox control to
some extent that you can only see a tiny box. It works allright but not that
perfect. I think I can live with that.

If you have any other ideas you think that may work for me, I am more than
happy to appreciate it.

Thank you once again for your help

 

[Duane Hookom]

Typically if the text box can shrink and the section can shrink and there
are no controls to the left or right of the text box, the gap will shrink.

 

[Associates]

Yes, it is looking a lot better now. It is the section that i missed out on
changing the can shrink property to Yes. It works now.

Well done and Thank you for everything.

 

[Vagabond]

What if there are other items to the left or right that you don't want to
shift? The classic situation is an address section on an invoice report,
say. If one of the address fields is not being used you get the gaps.
However, if you let it expand and contract, information further to the left
or right gets broken up. What is the answer to that?

 

[BruceM via AccessMonster.com]

I often use concatenated values in a single text box or query field. For
instance, in a query:

FullAddress: [CompanyName] & Chr(13) & Chr(10) &
[Address1] & Chr(13) & Chr(10) &
([Address2] + Chr(13) + Chr(10)) &
[City] & ", " & [State] & Space(3) & [Zip]

The Address2 line uses plus signs instead of ampersands for concatenation.
The reason is that if Address2 is Null, the entire expression inside the
parentheses will evaluate to Null, and there will be no vertical space where
Address2 would be.

This doesn't eliminate all difficulties, but it is one of the techniques that
can be put to use.

What if there are other items to the left or right that you don't want to
shift? The classic situation is an address section on an invoice report,
say. If one of the address fields is not being used you get the gaps.
However, if you let it expand and contract, information further to the left
or right gets broken up. What is the answer to that?

Yes, it is looking a lot better now. It is the section that i missed out on
changing the can shrink property to Yes. It works now.

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