Font formatting within a field

[Guest]

I have been saying this now for more than a decade: it is time that one
should be able to format fonts within an Acess field, or at least within a
message field. One should be able to incorporate rich text formatting.
Currently, every field allows the user to select a font format for a given
field and everything remains the same within that field. However, what if
one is citing from a book and wants to place the title in italics. That is
now impossible. When Lotus 1-2-3 first came out, it too only allowed plain
formatting. The programmers of Excel realized this was a shortcoming and
this helped to bring Lotus user to Excel. Similarly, I want to be able to
use rich text formatting in a memo field at least and then to transfer that
to MS Word and keep the formatting. Please don't make me wait another decade!
Thank you for considering this.

 

[Douglas J Steele]

See what Stephen Lebans has at http://www.lebans.com/richtext.htm

 

[Rick Brandt]

I have been saying this now for more than a decade: it is time that
one should be able to format fonts within an Acess field, or at
least within a message field. One should be able to incorporate rich
text formatting. Currently, every field allows the user to select a
font format for a given field and everything remains the same within
that field. However, what if one is citing from a book and wants to
place the title in italics. That is now impossible. When Lotus
1-2-3 first came out, it too only allowed plain formatting. The
programmers of Excel realized this was a shortcoming and this helped
to bring Lotus user to Excel. Similarly, I want to be able to use
rich text formatting in a memo field at least and then to transfer
that to MS Word and keep the formatting. Please don't make me wait
another decade! Thank you for considering this.

Try opening a Rich Text (RTF) file in Notepad. See all of the extra "stuff"
that is in the file? You need to store all of that stuff in order to do RTF
formatting. Do you want all of that inside your data in a database? How
will the "real" data be extracted from that when you do exports or
what-have-you.

It's just not practical in a database except in specialized cases where a
special RTF control can be used to manage it.

 

[Guest]

There is a Rich Text control that can be added to a memo field, but not in
continuous form view. There is a commercial one by FMS that's much better:

http://www.fmsinc.com/products/memo/index.html

also Stephen Lebans has written a free one that's better than the one that
Microsoft provides:

http://www.lebans.com/richtext.htm
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
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