Lynn - You are correct about a regular text box, You can not add formatting to text. However, there are rich text controls which you can add which permit formatting. I use FMS's Rich Text control Total Access Memo to provide that functionality.
See http://www.fmsinc.com/products/memo/index.html for more information Dawn Crosier Application Specialist "Education Lasts a Lifetime" This message was posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the group so that others can learn as well. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lynn Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 10:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ms_access] Re: Access report - creating a new line in text box I'm a little confused about what you want, but to get a new line in a text box, you want a HARD Return, which is Shift/Return. Try that. Next, you cannot, to my knowledge, bold or underline only part of the text in a text box. (Someone correct me PLEASE :) Hope that answers your question in part, Lynn Bryant Ball Ground, GA --- In [email protected], "Susan Gardner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a report in an Access file that someone created for me. I have > NO real experience in Access, it was all done for me, and now I want > to do some editing. > What I have is a letter with "letter head" at the top (text box 1.) > The date (text box 2),then body of the letter follows in the main > larger text box 3. > > When our officers change I need to change the first text box sometimes > this means there are more or less lines in this box. By the way the > text in this box is centered. all others are left justified. > > The first thing I'm trying to do is put the date in the third larger > text box instead of a seperate box. To do this I figured I needed to > add a blank line before the first paragraph of the 3rd text box, then > enter the current date code. I tried to copy and paste the code from > its current seperate box and paste it into the third box, but then the > report only shows the code/no date and the following paragraph isn't > aligned properly since the only way I could figure to move it down was > with spaces. I tried ctrl/enter, and that just gave me some pop up > dialog box with some tools in it that I don't know what to do with. > > The second thing I wanted to do is bold only part of the text in the > large/3rd text box. > > Some how I ended up with some blank space between 2 paragraphs so what > I did to get the bolded text paragraph I want is add another text box, > bold it and place it on top of the existing larger text box, but > I always have to move the 2 boxes (3 if you count the date) when I > need to shift the text up or down for any adjustments I do in the > first box. Is there a way to only bold one paragraph of a larger text > box? > > I hope this is clear. > TIA > Susan G ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/q7folB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/q7folB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ms_access/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
