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I have a form where a user enters in information. That form looks up the
corresponding data in another table. On the form I have them click a command
button that says Report. This generates the report I have built and they
always select for the report to output to Rich Text Format so they may
manipulate the data and include it in their document.
Everything works fine, but the report appearance is causing some trouble. I
want the output to look like each record is in it's own box. For example,

Location
Support
Email
Phone

There would be a box/border around that and the next location would appear
below that (with a box/border). I've included lines in the detail section
(horizontal and veritcal) of the report....however, when they run the report
and output it to Rich Text Format the lines don't appear. How can I get this
look once they output it to Rich Text Format? Your help is greatly
appreciated. Thank you.
 
Unfortunately, none of the graphical aspects work when you export rich text
from Access. Check boxes, lines, rectangles, borders, and logos do not
survive the journey.

You can fudge a horizontal line with a text box that has this Control
Source:
=String(200, "_")

To fudge a check box, see:
Check boxes on reports: change size, color, or unbox
at:
http://allenbrowne.com/ser-52.html

Beyond that, RTF will not work.
 
That works perfectly for the horizontal line I was trying to achieve.
However, I've been trying to get a vertical line and not sure what character
to use (instead of "_")in the control source. Is there any option for that?
Thank you once again!
 
You could try setting the Vertical property of a text box to try to get this
running vertically. (Access 2000 and later only.)

Otherwise, you could try the pipe character, i.e. |
 
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