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Keith G Hicks
Is there a way to get a vertical scroll bar in a text box?
Keith
Keith
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Depends what kind of text box you're talking about: AutoShape, form field,
or ActiveX control.
or ActiveX control.
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Keith G Hicks
just plain "Text Box" in the "Drawing" toolbar.
Suzanne S. Barnhill said:Depends what kind of text box you're talking about: AutoShape, form field,
or ActiveX control.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Then, the answer is no.
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Keith G Hicks
But it can be done if I use . . . . ?? . . . . instead of a text box?
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Jay Freedman
Insert a text box from the Control Toolbox toolbar. (This the the ActiveX
control that Suzanne mentioned.) Then open its Properties dialog; set the
Multiline property to True and the Scrollbars property to
fmScrollBarsVertical. Close the Properties dialog. Drag the sizing handles
to resize the box as desired. Click the Exit Design Mode button on the
toolbar and close the toolbar.
When you type in the box enough text to overfill the visible area, the
scroll bar will appear.
ActiveX controls have drawbacks you should be aware of. The main one is that
they trigger the antivirus mechanism in the same way that macros in the
document would. If the user has the macro security level set to High, the
document will open in Design Mode and the text box won't work. If their
level is set to Medium, they'll get a dialog when the document opens, and
they have to choose Enable to let the box work. A minor annoyance is that
when you scroll a document containing ActiveX controls, they sometimes don't
scroll at the same rate as the text, but suddenly snap into place when you
stop.
control that Suzanne mentioned.) Then open its Properties dialog; set the
Multiline property to True and the Scrollbars property to
fmScrollBarsVertical. Close the Properties dialog. Drag the sizing handles
to resize the box as desired. Click the Exit Design Mode button on the
toolbar and close the toolbar.
When you type in the box enough text to overfill the visible area, the
scroll bar will appear.
ActiveX controls have drawbacks you should be aware of. The main one is that
they trigger the antivirus mechanism in the same way that macros in the
document would. If the user has the macro security level set to High, the
document will open in Design Mode and the text box won't work. If their
level is set to Medium, they'll get a dialog when the document opens, and
they have to choose Enable to let the box work. A minor annoyance is that
when you scroll a document containing ActiveX controls, they sometimes don't
scroll at the same rate as the text, but suddenly snap into place when you
stop.