Rich text fields in Access 2007 are severely limited. They support a minimal
subset of html tags, mostly font and paragraph formatting. They do not
support sub and superscripts. Worse than just not displaying the text
correctly in a textbox with TextFormat set to Rich Text, Access sometimes
silently removes the unsupported tags when you edit that data. I resorted to
only allowing data edits with text boxes set to plain text format, so the
user has to edit the tags manually. Displaying the data in a form works
correctly in a web browser control, which supports all html tags, but that
control does not have a CanGrow property so it's not of much use in reports.
In that case I use a rich text box for the report, and unsupported html tags
are ignored.
I had assumed that Access' rich text fields would be more useful, and was
disappointed to discover these limitations after starting a project that
uses html for rich text.
"Ken Snell MVP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> ACCESS 2003 and earlier versions do not have a rich text control/field, so
> they cannot store superscripts or subscripts. ACCESS 2007 does have a rich
> text control/field, so it will store them.
>
> Stephen Lebans has a rich text control for the earlier versions of ACCESS.
> See www.lebans.com website.
>
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> Ken Snell
> <MS ACCESS MVP>
> http://www.accessmvp.com/KDSnell/
>
>
> "dogleg left" <dogleg (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:4E641ED1-0DC6-4C2F-A8F5-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>I would like to store information in Access - the data has subsripts and
>> superscripts that are meaningful. How do I enter these in access? Will
>> access
>> save them?
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