ControlTip Displays in one line vs a BOX in Access 2000 & Up,

[Tamar Katz]

In Access 2000 and up the ControlTip (field Property on a
form) Text is
displayed in one line horizontally. In Access 97 & Access
95, the text
displayed in more than one line in a box therefore makes
it easier to read
and does not truncate it if the text expands greater than
the width of the
monitor. This is really frustrating, since I rely heavily
on the
ControlTip to assist the users. Now that I have converted
my Access95 app,
I am getting less of a feature in Access 2003.

Any ideas how to get over this hurdle? Is there some kind
of Option to setup?
I know that I could insert enter CRLF into text, to force
it start on a new line, however I do not want to do this
for every field.
Any ideas appreciated.

 

[Wayne Morgan]

Place the cursor in the Control Tip box in the properties sheet and press
Shift+F2. This will bring up an edit window. To create more than one line,
press Ctrl+Enter where you would like the line breaks. Pressing just Enter
is the same as clicking the Ok button.

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

In Access 2000 and up the ControlTip (field Property on a
form) Text is
displayed in one line horizontally. In Access 97 & Access
95, the text
displayed in more than one line in a box therefore makes
it easier to read
and does not truncate it if the text expands greater than
the width of the
monitor. This is really frustrating, since I rely heavily
on the
ControlTip to assist the users. Now that I have converted
my Access95 app,
I am getting less of a feature in Access 2003.

Any ideas how to get over this hurdle? Is there some kind
of Option to setup?
I know that I could insert enter CRLF into text, to force
it start on a new line, however I do not want to do this
for every field.
Any ideas appreciated.

That's odd. I'm not getting any difference in this regard between the
copy of Access 97 I have installed and my copy of Access 2002 . They
both display on one long line. But I could swear I remember control
tips of any real length displaying in boxes. I wonder if this is
dependent on the Windows version. Do your Access 97 versions display
the same as before, even on later OSes?

If you have to, you can write a routine to go through all your forms,
examine every ControlTip property, and insert CRLFs to break them at
suitable places.

 

[Tamar Katz]

Dirk,
The Access 97 & 2000 that I have is on Win 95 and the
Access 2003 is on Xp. So it could be OS realted. Also, I
am using the max size of the tip which is 255. Thus if I
insert the CRLF, then I have to cut down on some chars.

I am just wondering why MS makes some of the features
obsolete or unuserfriendly when they upgrade the s/w?

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

Dirk,
The Access 97 & 2000 that I have is on Win 95 and the
Access 2003 is on Xp. So it could be OS realted. Also, I
am using the max size of the tip which is 255. Thus if I
insert the CRLF, then I have to cut down on some chars.

I am just wondering why MS makes some of the features
obsolete or unuserfriendly when they upgrade the s/w?

Beats me, though they have an awful lot of software behavior to keep
track of. I just try to work around it.