Autoshapes

[Guy Lydig]

Posted 6 days ago but got no response so I am trying again.

Access 2003

Word has AutoShapes into which text can be typed. I have a Report in Access
that I run monthly. I would like to be able to have the report allow me to
decide which AutoShape I want and allow me to type text in it each time it is
run.

Can this be done? Advice will be appreciated.

Guy

 

[Rick Brandt]

Posted 6 days ago but got no response so I am trying again.

Access 2003

Word has AutoShapes into which text can be typed. I have a Report in
Access that I run monthly. I would like to be able to have the report
allow me to decide which AutoShape I want and allow me to type text
in it each time it is run.

Can this be done? Advice will be appreciated.

Your first sentence says it all "Word has AutoShapes...". Access does not.
You might be able to merge data into a Word document to do this, but I don't
believe you can do anything like this in a native Access report.

 

[Marshall Barton]

Posted 6 days ago but got no response so I am trying again.

Access 2003

Word has AutoShapes into which text can be typed. I have a Report in Access
that I run monthly. I would like to be able to have the report allow me to
decide which AutoShape I want and allow me to type text in it each time it is
run.

Not that I ever heard about.

However, you can use the report methods Line, Circle and
PSet to draw just about any shape you want. Coding a shape
can be relatively simple to tedious depending on how much
the desired shape deviates from a rectangle or ellipse.
Getting the text to line wrap inside the shape can be
difficult though.