Text formatting in memo/text fields

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newbieaccess

I need to enable the user to highlight (bold, change color to red) while
entering their comments in a form field. These comments are to be printed
later in resports so the formatting should be preserved in the field.

Any advice or reference to documentation will be appreciated.
 
S

solex

What control are you using. Have you tried using the RichText control, the
data will be saved as RTF?
 
D

Dirk Goldgar

"[email protected]"
I need to enable the user to highlight (bold, change color to red)
while entering their comments in a form field. These comments are to
be printed later in resports so the formatting should be preserved in
the field.

Any advice or reference to documentation will be appreciated.
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You can't do this in an ordinary Access text box; you need a Rich Text
Box control. Stephen Lebans has created one that he makes freely
available on his web site at www.lebans.com . The control you want is
called RTF2 -- I don't know offhand exactly which page it's on at that
site, but you should be able to find it.
 
N

newbieaccess

Thanks. That makes sense.

Dirk Goldgar said:
"[email protected]"


You can't do this in an ordinary Access text box; you need a Rich Text
Box control. Stephen Lebans has created one that he makes freely
available on his web site at www.lebans.com . The control you want is
called RTF2 -- I don't know offhand exactly which page it's on at that
site, but you should be able to find it.

--
Dirk Goldgar, MS Access MVP
www.datagnostics.com

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