Le 14/05/13 12:40, Ian Whitfield a écrit : Hi Ian,
> Open in normal mode and whatever you enter in the field will have the > Italics and/or Bold that you selected above. > I suspect that what the original poster is looking for is the possibilty to type text strings into memo/longvarchar type field and then selectively enable the bold or italic attributes, as apparently one can do in Access (or in other DB GUI frontend software). Unfortunately, whilst this is possible in Base if you change the properties of your text field to "Multiline with formatting", nothing you write in that field will be bound to the underlying data table : - additionally, this doesn't even currently work on OSX (bug), i.e. the attributes show no visible change, even if they are chosen from the right mouse button click context menu when selecting a typed-in word; - any text that is already present in the underlying table to which the text field control was previously bound will become invisible ; - as the text data which is newly entered or modified is not bound to the field of the corresponding data table, it can never be written to the table, which means that closing the form and then re-opening it results in the loss of any data you might just have entered - at least, this is certainly the case on OSX (having just tried it). All in all, a pretty useless feature, except perhaps if you just want your form to contain some bold or underlined formatted text, e.g. as a warning, general information, or other reminder, to the user of the form. The whole notion of "formatted fields" is hopelessly underdeveloped in Base. Oh, and did I forget to mention that it doesn't work on OSX ;-) so its not even cross-platform compatible, meaning that you can't swap with your colleagues and friends on other OSes and expect to see the same thing - magnifique, non ? Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
