Buddy: Yeah I use regions alot. But I think you have it backwards for what I want. I want one large Rich Text object, mail merge, with lots of stuff in it. Boiler plate text, many DB fields, many variable fields. When you place a DB or variable field in a RT object, there are no options like "stretch" or widths to play around with that I can see. And I don't think you can put a "region" inside of a Rich Text object.
However, since then I figured out that I really don't need to have this variable width/height stuff inside my Rich Text object. So I can locate this stuff in the Break Header (new page) since that stuff will probably never change, and then locate my large Rich Text with all the other fields in the Detail band. My variable Page Header stuff can work just like a "regular" report, and yet I still have my Rich Text editable box so the user can easily modify the text as if they were in a Microsoft Word document. I wouldn't mind finding out if those kinds of property options are available from within the Rich Text, but I have a perfectly good workaround! Karen -----Original Message----- From: Buddy Walker <walker.bu...@comcast.net> To: rbase-l <rbase-l@googlegroups.com> Sent: Sat, Sep 17, 2016 2:47 pm Subject: RE: [RBASE-L] - Using Rich Text report controls Karen Have you tried using regions. I’ve done this in the past You can adjust them to shift based on a previous one. Place the rich text variable or whichever object you are using in the region and the make it only as wide as you need it then click stretch along with word wrap. Buddy From: karentellef via RBASE-L [mailto:rbase-l@googlegroups.com] Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 1:38 PM To: rbase-l@googlegroups.com Subject: [RBASE-L] - Using Rich Text report controls I'm wondering if I can make the Advanced Rich Text report control work for what I need. In this legal document, I need to locate about a dozen variable-length fields on the left, followed by a closing parens and some text to the right. Obviously, the closing parents all need to line up. Using regular DB Label controls, the maximum field width is located, with the paren on the right and all is good. But in Rich Text, I can't find a way to say "start the field here and always end it here", so the paren floats and follows the inserted field. Adding to that, the first field (the Plaintiff name) is long and can possibly fill 2 lines (although never longer), so I need that to wrap. Here's an example of several different lengths of things and how it affects the lineup. Would I have to use table/columns for this? And if so, would that allow me to wrap that first name if necessary? TIA! Karen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbase-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbase-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbase-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
